Cut the Levity!
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
4.8 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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First, we learn how Jack was taught about levity. Next, a discussion on the science behind the laughter of a baby!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:04.3 | Cut the levity. |
| 0:05.1 | It's one more thing. |
| 0:06.9 | Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:08.4 | One more thing. |
| 0:12.2 | We are not going to cut the levity. |
| 0:14.4 | As a matter of fact, we're going to focus on levity, particularly the levity of babies and the science around that, which is kind of interesting. |
| 0:20.5 | And, you know, |
| 0:21.7 | Katie's pregnant, so that makes it extra exciting. |
| 0:25.0 | My cut the levity is a line from my band teacher when I was about 15 years old, Gladys, |
| 0:33.5 | 15 years old in band, and somebody made a joke or something when we're supposed to be paying |
| 0:37.4 | attention and practicing. |
| 0:38.5 | And my band teacher, as band teachers will got very, very angry that we weren't taking this music as seriously as he would like. And he started on, cut the levity! You hear me? Cup the levity! And there wasn't a one of us that had the idea what the word levity meant. We were just looking at each other. and we just looked wide-eyed. |
| 0:54.7 | I mean, he was really angry. |
| 0:55.6 | And then when he went back to working with the oboes or something like that, |
| 0:58.0 | we were just looking at each other and we just looked wide-eyed |
| 0:54.6 | I mean he was really angry and then when he went back to working with the oboes or something like |
| 0:57.8 | that we're like what's levity mean I don't know well you learned something that day and it was a teacher |
| 1:02.6 | and it was pre-smart phones so it wasn't like we could look it up real quick so we we left the room |
| 1:07.5 | not having any idea in what way we had angered him. What our offense was. |
| 1:12.5 | He was an angry man, wasn't he? |
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