He tries to keep quiet about it.
The movie is a kind of a cult classic among his colleagues, inspiring a generation of meteorologists and storm chasers and weather nerds and such. So, when it comes up he’ll just smile and nod along. When it comes on TBS and the scientists and engineers he interacts with on Twitter have their impromptu online watch parties and start sharing memes with the cow flying through the air, he’ll click the heart button. Whenever they share little clips, he’ll sometimes hit play. It’s been plenty enough for him to get the gist over the years — enough for him to start nodding before you even finish asking if the real science in the script parallels the research he’ll begin late this summer, at least in terms of an ultimate goal.