An Interview With Billy West
Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)
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4.8 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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We delve into his career as a voice actor, the thought process behind creating a voice, his difficult childhood, living with autism, his time on The Howard Stern Show, Futurama, Space Jam and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Four finger discount dude. |
| 0:17.6 | Hey everybody, welcome to Four Finger Discount, where today we are very lucky to be joined by one of the most iconic voice actors of our time. It is Billy West. Billy, how are you, sir? Good. How are you? Doing very well and very, very happy to have you on board the show this afternoon for us. This evening for you. Well, it's 9.30 p.m. in Los Angeles. Yeah. Appreciate you staying up past your bedtime. |
| 0:39.8 | Ah, if you only knew. |
| 0:43.3 | Are you a night owl, Billy? |
| 0:45.0 | No, I used to be. |
| 0:48.7 | I take a medication that I wake up every three hours. |
| 0:50.5 | That's one of the side effects, you know. |
| 0:53.2 | So I have to add up a night's sleep. |
| 0:54.6 | You know, I have to, like, I's sleep. You know, I have to like, |
| 1:00.4 | I wake up and I go right back to sleep, of course, but it's a drag because I got to add up the hours to equal a decent sleep. Sometimes I just wake up and stumble around and try to figure |
| 1:06.7 | out something to do until I fall asleep again. |
| 1:09.1 | It is one of the drags of getting a few more miles on the media. You've got to be very strategic about your sleep patterns. Well, firstly, congratulations on the success of the latest season of Futurama. I saw you posted recently that it's got the highest rating of any season for the last decade of Rotten Tomato, so that must be exciting. I was thrilled to death that the fans appear to be over the moon. |
| 1:29.1 | And critics like it. |
| 1:30.7 | That's as good as it gets. |
| 1:32.1 | That's the best of both worlds. |
| 1:33.7 | And, you know, I'm thrilled to death that that situation is what's going on. |
| 1:38.5 | I think that everybody is always trying to be at, you know, their utmost creative, uh, the actors, the writers, everybody. |
| 1:46.0 | No, and, you know, it's like, it's still a big labor of love and still a passion project for, |
| 1:51.7 | for everybody. |
| 1:52.9 | Is Fitzurama the show you're most proud of, do you think? |
| 1:55.7 | Yes, it's my favorite thing I've ever done. And plus, after all this time, it's, we're like family, |
| 2:02.8 | you know. Is that the reason that it is your favor, that the relationships that you've |
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