This week, Ben and Carter present the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Now all you have to do is figure out the question.

This week, Ben and Carter discuss how founders can better focus, and what day-to-day habits they can employ to help.

This week, Ben and Carter welcome Liz Conway from Gide to discuss the recently released draft of California’s upcoming cannabis regulation. Find out how future rules may effect your business, and how to oppose more onerous aspects of the rules before they become set in stone.

This week, Ben (and the disembodied voice of Carter) welcome Isaac Roth and Vu Lam from Anresco Labs to discuss the importance of reliable lab analytics in the cannabis industry. Anresco has been providing reliable and accurate services for the food industry for over 70 years, and now a significant part of their business is analyzing cannabis products.

This week, Carter interviews Ben Larson, who apparently runs an accelerator for cannabis startups when he’s not galavanting around Europe. Ben and Carter discuss the importance of hustle for early stage founders.

This week, Ben threatens the future of Gateway—and possibly civilzation itself—by remaining absent for the second consecutive show. Meanwhile, on a quest to prove that Ben isn’t necessary after all, Carter chats with Brian Holmes from First Ascent Associates about early stage investing. Plus, we arm the studio audience with microphones. A microphone. Whatever, who’s counting?

While Ben is off hustling at Valley in Berlin and the International Cannabis Business Conference, Carter sits down with Mike and Pete, founders of GOOD Co-op to talk startups, cannabis, and accelerators.

This week Ben and Carter discuss what happens after the pitch. Lots of founders put a lot of effort into pitching their company, but do little to manage potential investor relationships after that.