I heard a rumor that you watched all the new episodes of the Umbrella Academy before listening to this podcast.

Otherwise, things, things, things,

more.

Just a few scenes into the third episode of Umbrella Academy season two, we see Vanya

driving alone down a dark country road. It's pitch black, no street lamps, But up ahead she notices the headlights of a stalled out milk truck

In the darkness she can just make out a milkman with white blonde hair standing in front of his truck and that's when the shooting starts.

Because this isn't a milkman. It's one of the Swedish

assassins who have been tracking down the academy.

Pannicked, Banya drives off and swerves into a ditch.

She runs into a cornfield with the Swedes right behind her.

The corn is tall, ahead above all of them, and it's thick.

She winds her way through the rows trying to hide.

There's a lot to pay attention to in this scene, but perhaps the most impressive thing is something you haven't even thought about.

The corn. Like the costumes and the music, this cornfield was created just for the world of the Umbrella Academy.

My name is Chris Burke Older.

I'm basically a farmer and that's what I do for my living.

I work with my father, my brother, two of my sons.

Chris Burkeholder is the man responsible for the cornfield. He has a few farms just outside of Toronto.

We grow corn and soybeans and wheat, and then we host agricultural location filming.

You might think that something like a cornfield chase would be shot inside on a sound stage or with a green screen.

But it turns out when you want to run through corn, it's best to use the real thing.

But for the Umbrella Academy,

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