Take it's guy here. So what does it take for 90 people in an orchestra to play the exact same

chord so specifically and so accurately all at the same time? Well, that beautiful synthesis of

music comes together because of trust, trust in the conductor. And on this episode, we explore

ideas around trust, trust in the people we love, in our leaders and institutions, and especially

in ourselves. It's called trust and consequences and it originally aired in May of 2015.

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I'm Guy Ross and on the show today, trust and consequences.

And trust comes in handy, especially if you're this guy.

I'm Charles Hayeswood and I'm a conductor. Charles conducts orchestras all around the world.

And of course, we live in an age where in the rock and roll world, pop world, everything

pretty much is recorded now to a click track. Which is like a digital metronome. It makes it

really easy to synchronize instruments. So it's a kind of completely fail safe. No one will ever play

in the wrong place. Everything will always sync up. You see the orchestra doesn't have a click track.

And that's a tough thing because it's a conductor. You play an instrument which is called the orchestra,

upwards of a hundred people. You know, you can't actually touch or blow or scrape or do anything to

this instrument called the orchestra. All you can do is move air around and trust that your gesture

or communicate what is useful to the orchestra.

Like, for instance, there might be a time when the orchestra needs to hit a chord,

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