rich 1.0 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Odds are, the voice of Billy West is ringing in your ears. Or rather, voices. A leading voiceover actor, West has spoken up for title characters in "Doug" and "Ren & Stimpy," for latter-day revivals of Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker and Popeye, for a broad swath of the "Futurama" crew, even Red M&M. Now West has brought his virtuosic yackety-yak to his own podcast, speaking for himself on "The Billy West Show," with five editions posted on his website and iTunes of a series he hopes to build on every couple of weeks. The freewheeling format unleashes West with his vocal cast of thousands, accompanied by the singular voice of Jim Gomez, a veteran director-animator and, here, a stabilizing influence who keeps this whole enterprise from flying away. Offering a seamless 30 minutes or so of sketches, mock-interviews and other foolishness, "The Billy West Show" aspires to be "ALMOST good college radio," says West, while it draws on classic comedy influences including the 1960s-era Firesign Theater. The episodes are recorded in the repurposed garage of West's home nestled on a cozy cul-de-sac in the Hollywood Hills. With the garage door opened to a perfect L.A. morning recently, West and Gomez are hashing out a future episode amid a crush of audio equipment, keyboards, vintage jukeboxes, a carpenter's work bench and a riot of random artwork on the walls. The show gives West free reign to draw on his encyclopedic treasury of voices, dialects, sound effects and pop-culture references. When was the last time you heard a perfect imitation of Paul Harvey advertising Kava coffee? Latest Stories from The Associated Press https://audioboom.com/channels/4277258-latest-stories-from-the-associated-press Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/16844031/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/3609102/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>