From my performance on Friday night: “I’m so glad the lockout’s over. I can finally stop boycotting CBC Radio and go back to just not listening to it.”

It was a joke — but there was more than a little truth in it.

I love CBC Radio. I caught a little of The Current this morning as I was tuning in the FM frequency for my iPod’s transmitter accessory, and was reminded of just how great our public broadcaster can be.

But I carried on to my iPod, because I only have so much listening time and wanted to catch the last of the Hobson and Holtz Report. I got hooked on podcasts during the lockout, and I may be ruined for good.

The more writing I do — and I’m doing a lot these days — the less able I am to listen to spoken-word radio, for the same reason I can’t write speeches while watching TV. Words going into ears interfere with words being typed into keyboard. And I’m finding a lot of really useful stuff in the podcast world, things I can’t find anywhere else, so that’s what I end up squeezing into my little windows of spoken-word listening.

Most of the time that works for me. But when I catch a little radio, it’s a reminder of what I’m missing.

And meanwhile, I wonder — how many more listeners did the CBC lose to podcasting in the past few months?