I was like, "He was the first person on my podcast." Just a fun story though, but yeah.

That's another reason we're trying to get them in Savannah as much as possible.

It's Alex's hometown.

It's a great place.

It's a rowdy town.

Man.

Alex, can you tell us about, um, the Thunder Thursday project that you're doing now? So no more, no more Fee Fi Fo Fish at all, or just not on Thursdays?

So when it comes to validated antibodies for GPCRs, what do most researchers commonly get wrong when they try these antibodies? What are some of the things that you're hearing from people coming to you saying, oh, it didn't work? I've had stories where, you know, the data sheet looked great, you get it, and then you can five more, and then everything goes to trash because nothing works.

So I think – I wouldn't say people get things wrong.

I think – what I think the main message for me is that I think – and I think this is actually a healthy thing.

And having been on both sides of this issue, both at the bench and now in the industry, and I'll be very honest with you, you really don't understand – antibodies until you're in the industry i mean and what i mean is it's the whole you know the whole gestalt of the antibody world you don't really so it's sometimes you know it's something that i think people at the bench don't haven't had that experience you really get it once you're actually um you know in the industry to some extent but um i think the the key is is and it makes me look back and and think that i was pretty naive about antibodies in many ways and Part of that is I think there needs to be education earlier on in training about how to choose antibodies given their importance.

But I think the key that I would reach out, that I would come back to is I should have engaged more with the company.

I think you find out, is this reagent really something that's going to help me answer my biological question? And you're going to look at the applications.

You're going to look at the data.

or Jay?

H- how did, like, what did you see in your data? Um, how did you target them? Like, how did you think about trying to get those crossover votes?

Yeah, I mean, so historically, Mikey's always won over, um, about, like, 25% of Republicans, 60% of unaffiliated voters, so we knew she had that crossover appeal.

I think for us, we were incredibly proactive on issues around the economy.

So, uh, we saw energy rates spike this summer, and we were hot out the gate with a state of emergency where we said we were gonna freeze utility costs.

Um, we got there probably three or four weeks before Jack Ciattarelli did, which was just a huge misstep on his part in my mind, and we also, we went on office- uh, offense on taxes.

So we had our outside expenditures signaled to them to go after him for raising property taxes at every level of government.

So by the time we got to the end of the summer, we saw Fox polls showing that we were leading on traits of lowering taxes, lowering costs, um, who you trusted most to tackle the problems of the economy and utility costs, which are just historically traits that Democrats are not gonna win on, um, and I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that Mikey's service background, people saw her as someone who was coming at problems from a place of service and wanting to deliver for people and not as a place of partisanship.

Was that something that was part of a wave? Was that part of deliberate targeting and choice? Like, how did you approach it?

What do you think people can learn from the strategy that you and Mikey Sherrill and the whole team ran, uh, during that race?

Yeah, uh, you know, we were unrelenting in, uh, our message of affordability, both in the primary and in the general.

It was really clear that that's what voters needed to hear, that someone was gonna be a strong leader and fight for them every day.

And Mikey had that record, and we built on that throughout the campaign.

And what you saw was us shift every single o- every 21 county in New Jersey to the left.

We picked up four, potentially more, legislative seats.

There's now a super majority in the assembly.

What should people know about how she's gonna approach that challenge and threats he's already been making about money he's gonna take away from New Jersey?