Captain *beep* bka Josh Wurman

Actually, its never been explained exactly how Josh and Sean are connected financially.

From what was mentioned in the last two episodes, it seems that Josh helped Sean secure funding, and somehow has control over the money. Either Josh was put in charge of the money by the sponsor(s) or Josh threatened (off camera) to call the sponsor(s) and have them pull the funding.

Some have speculated that Sean is being funded by Josh's National Science Foundation grants and Vortex 2, but this seems highly unlikely since it is federal money, and that is very tightly controlled. Sean might get a small amount of money for agreeing to have those instruments mounted on the TIV, but it wouldn't be anywhere what he would need to spend an entire season chasing.

As for Sean, a lot of what we see of him is either done intentionally for the show (especially the "conflict" with Reed) or is the result of creative editing by Discovery.

For this same reason, I was willing to give Wurman the benefit of the doubt until this last episode. I figured all of the previews and to supposed tension from the Nov. 10th episode was just more Discovery creative editing to add an uncertainty factor.

However, last night's episode he came off as an absolute jackass. Josh has always came across as smug, but no one can argue he is not an expert in tornadoes, so a little bit of smugness could be over looked. However, as the seasons have gone on, he has gotten more and more attitude to a point where it is just unacceptable behavior for someone who claims to be a professional.

Now, Josh seems to be only concerned that people are going to think TIV is part of Vortex 2 (blame that on the show) and it will make him look back. In reality, it won't effect V2 one bit since TIV is not operating with any connection to V2. (Putting a few things on top of the TIV doesn't make it part of V2.) Josh made that very clear earlier in the season when he told Sean to buzz off. I doubt a professional who uses the excuse of not wanting to make Vortex 2 look bad would allow Discovery to edit the show in such a way as to portray one of the project's leaders in such a bad light. Obviously Josh believes the BS he is spewing.

Yea Josh seems to be doing all he can short of cutting funding outright to shut the TIV down, he even said he wanted the TIV to go home so that without TIV Sean couldn't get any footage and without footage Josh could then pull funding without looking like a douche. At the end of the day he did something worse, he let's Sean continue but imposes a 75 mile ban keeping the TIV away from Vortex 2 and then takes every storm away from Sean, in the process he angers Sean, Sean's team in hopes that either A. Sean's team quits B. Sean breaks the rule or C. Sean doesn't get any tornado footage... In every one of those scenarios Josh could cut funding on Sean without looking like a turd.

Don't get me wrong, I am not a Sean supporter. I think he tends to shoot from the hip, not always making safety his first priority and his willy nilly laid back approach I can understand would ruffle feathers but Josh seems to just be motivated by his grudge against Sean. It has been going on since the beginning of the second season, Josh kept Sean from going into storms because his big honking radar kept breaking down, he kept Sean on too short of leash, this year he refused to help Sean with his radar and in the same sentence asked Sean if he collected any info to send it back Josh's way. If I were Sean I would be shopping around for other financiers, Josh can't be the only person out there with money.