It's been a busy day here in the fortress — prepping for the Cartoon Voices Panel, doing the Cartoon Voices Panel, recovering from the Cartoon Voices Panel…

Recovering involved a long nap but it also involved a lot of nice phone calls and e-mails and texts, including a few from friends I haven't heard from in quite a while. That was an unexpected bonus. I thought it went pretty well, especially considering the inevitable last-minute tech problem. One of our five panelists, Bob Bergen, suddenly couldn't hear me. He could hear the other four panelists but not me…and how can you be on a panel if you can't hear the host?

If you watch it — and I hope you will — you'll see how we coped with it at first, then fixed it. From that point on, everyone seemed to have a pretty good time, though I came up with several thoughts about things we could do better. If and when we do more of these, we'll try to perfect the form…and it's starting to look like a when, not an if. Stay tuned for more details…and thanks to everyone who watched us in real time. It made a difference, wholly positive, to know we were doing it for a live audience, even one we couldn't see or hear.

Featuring Bob Bergen, Julie Nathanson, Fred Tatasciore, Phil LaMarr and Secunda Wood…

That's right. We're doing it live at 1 PM Pacific Time today, which is of course 4 PM Eastern and 3 PM Central. I have no idea if we'll be able to make this work but tune in and see what goes wrong, as I'm sure many things will. This could be the one and only time I'll attempt this or it could be the start of a series.

If you want it to be the latter, do me a favor and post the ad above on every social media you can. I'll be too busy in the morning to do it myself. Or at least post the link (https://youtu.be/v2QtT8U9x9E") and use it yourself at the proper time. After the webcast concludes, the entire video should be at that link and you can watch it then and probably forever after. Oh, how I hope someone wants to watch it forever after.

Speaking as we were of people doing well on The Tonight Show, here's a clip of the guy I'm interviewing tonight at 7 PM Pacific Time…

Before most of us locked ourselves into The Isolation Booths That Are All Our Lives Now, I used to get a lot of spam phone calls. A lot of spam phone calls. Tons of spam phone calls. Vast quantities of spam phone calls, many of the robotic variety. Others were live human beings who were, you kind of assume, unable to find real jobs.

Simultaneously with me confining myself to my quarters, the calls largely stopped. Both kinds. Instead of getting seven every one day, I was getting one every seven days or thereabouts. I was curious to know why and I still am.

Pondering the matter, I decided that it probably had nothing to do with the fact that most folks in this country were isolating. You'd think if anything, the opposite would true. You'd think those evil, evil people who sic their spammers on us would say, "Hey! Everyone's home and a lot of them are bored and lonely! Good time to bombard them with sales pitches!"

And then there's the fact that so many folks' incomes suddenly stopped and unemployment soared. You'd think a lot more people would need the income they'd think (wrongly) they could make from those ads that engage them to make calls on commission. But no. I didn't get a single call from someone who wanted to install solar panels all over me and my house.

My theory — and I don't have any certainty in this — was that phone companies had instituted some controls and technology to suppress spam calls and the latest move just happened to coincide with us all deciding to let GrubHub feed us. But lately, the spam calls have been creeping back — I got two this morning — so I'm now less certain of that theory of which I was not certain at all. Anyone got a better theory?

And maybe I'll even figure out when I'm on the air…

Jeff Ash was not the 20th person to figure out the date of the previous clip. He was actually the first of about nine people…

Probably the 20th person to weigh in on this bit of trivia, but I think this clip is from May 14, 1980. Don Adams had been married for 3 years, which he says on air. Per IMDb, it was the last of his 32 appearances on the show over 18 years.

IMDB says Adams married in 1947, 1960 and 1977…so yeah, that makes sense. It's interesting, if true, that this was his last time on with Johnny because as you can see, he did very well and Carson looks delighted with his performance. (Why it might not be true: I don't think IMDb has the complete listings of Carson's shows and their guest lists.)

But Johnny could be very mercurial about guests. Someone could be in favor and appear often with for years…and then one day, some little thing banned them from the king's presence. Wonder what happened here.

Here's Don Adams in I-don't-know-what-year visiting with Johnny Carson. If you had ever been in Johnny's guest chair, you couldn't score any better than to tell two anecdotes like the ones Mr. Adams told. In fact, if I was producing a talk show, I think I'd show this clip to guests and tell them, "This is what we want you to do"…

Welcome to the half-century mark of my isolation and possibly yours. We had a great tune-in last night for me interviewing Sergio and the whole thing is being watched in replay today. If you missed it, all you have to do is scroll down and it's on this page not far below.

Note all the friends of Sergio and/or me who were watching and commenting like MAD writer Dick DeBartolo, actress Jewel Shepard, voice artist Gregg Berger, Disney Legend Floyd Norman and the other two members of the Groo Crew, Stan Sakai and Tom Luth. See? We can still gather with our buddies. We just can't do it in person.

Tonight at 7 PM my time, I'll be conversing with the amazing Shelly Goldstein, not be confused with any non-amazing Shelly Goldsteins there are in this world. This one writes funny scripts and funny songs and sings the latter and also occasionally some serious ones. She won't be singing tonight but she'll be telling you amazing show business exploits. Tomorrow night, another pal…Bill Kirchenbauer. Then on Saturday at 1 PM (again, my time), we try to do one of our Cartoon Voices panels online. You should be able to watch replays later but I'll bet it's more fun if you watch live.

I've been having trouble posting the interview I did with Paul Harris on Tuesday evening. Somewhere along a slightly-complicated recording process, things got a bit outta-sync and Paul and I both look like a redubbed foreign movie. I'll figure out how to fix that and put it online as soon as I figure out how to fix that and put it online.

I still don't know how much more I'm going to do in the field of webcasting. I appreciate the requests for more but they're not yet coming from within me. This is not me being coy. I just find that at certain intervals of my life, I find it wise to sit down and discuss with myself why I'm doing something I'm doing. I occasionally decide that I don't have a good enough reason. I'm going to webcast a little more and then try to determine what, if anything, I want to do with this technology.

And yes, I know there's going to be a lot more of it in everyone's future, either as a producer or patron of content. If you think toilet paper's hard to find these days, go online and try to purchase a webcam. Scarcer than hand sanitizer.

In the unlikely case that I configured things correctly, the box below should contain the live feed of today's Stu's Show on which Stu Shostak is interviewing Ruth Clampett, the delightful daughter-person of the great cartoon director/producer Bob Clampett. Depending on what browser you're using, you may need to turn on the audio to hear what they're saying. The program starts at 4 PM (my time) and they have no idea when it will end but there's enough to say about Bob that "sometime next Tuesday" is not impossible.

If by some miracle they finish by 7 PM, come back and watch me interview my friend/partner Sergio Aragonés…

Let's note the passing of the very fine director, Peter Hunt, who helmed not only the original Broadway production of 1776 but also the film version, as well. It's hard to think of a show that was more faithfully transferred to the screen. There must have been great temptation to "open up" the story and set more scenes outside the constitutional hall in which 90% (+) of the stage version takes place. Someone, and it was probably Peter Hunt, realized that the story was about what happened in The Room Where It Happened so most of the film just had to be in that room.

I got to meet Mr. Hunt once briefly at a screening of the film so I got to thank him for both versions, which I like tremendously. At that screening, everyone thanked him for both versions and many thanked him for the other fine work he did on stage and screen. This obit will tell you more about his impressive career. He was 81 years of age.