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Rule-Breaking Fantasies and an Enzo's Rum Punch
What happens when a bright, berry-forward cocktail meets a Mission Impossible daydream? We start with Enzo’s Rum Punch from Enzo’s Hideaway—orange, pineapple, cherry, and a pop of raspberry liqueur—and talk about why this mix cuts through the usual mango-passion fruit haze of theme park drinks. It’s the kind of sip that tastes like vacation without feeling like a sugar rinse, and we share our easy home riff, garnish mishap and all. From there we drift into the memories that make flavors stick: an unplanned beer at just the right time, small pauses before big rides, and how atmosphere rewires your palate.
Then we pull the pin on a purely comedic thought experiment: could Ethan Hunt “hide” overnight in a Disney park? We hammer the disclaimer—don’t do this, ever—because security, cameras, and common sense exist for a reason. With that boundary set, we play it for laughs: a four-phase “Operation Overnight Epcot” involving a ghillie suit, strategic benches, and a dramatic pre-dawn escape worthy of a spy montage. We riff on ridiculous ideas for Disneyland, DCA, Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcot, and Hollywood Studios, all while reminding you that fantasy stays fun when it respects reality. It’s theme park humor with guardrails, and the jokes land because the rules matter.
Along the way, we circle a simple takeaway: novelty keeps the day fresh. Whether it’s choosing a cocktail with berry-led complexity, finding a quiet spot for a cold ale, or humoring a big what-if that everyone agrees is pretend, contrast is what makes the magic pop. Hit play for a bright drink breakdown, a friendly nudge toward better beverage choices at Disney Springs, and a gleefully over-the-top spy parody that never crosses the line. If you smiled, share this episode with a friend, leave a quick review, and tell us your favorite Disney drink or silliest safe what-if. Subscribe so you don’t miss what we mix next.
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Hello and welcome to Cheers to Ears, where today we're drinking an Enzo's Rum Punch from Enzo's Hideaway at Disney Springs. And it's made with Florida Kana seven-year shamboard, orange juice, cherry juice, and pineapple juice and sold for$18. We've never been to Enzo's, but I guess we love it because that's two in a row.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. We had to do two in a row with this one. It looked really like a lot of their drinks looked really good. I could see doing six or seven of them pretty easily. Yeah. With what we're doing. Okay, so how we made this. Now I was not going to be the Florida Kanya seven-year rum. I wasn't buying that. It was like 40 bucks or 50 bucks or something. So we just did Captain Morgan's spice rum. We did two ounces, a half ounce of raspberry liqueur that we already had, two ounces of orange juice, one ounce of pineapple juice, and one ounce of dark cherry juice. And I forgot the garnish. I meant to buy the garnish. It would have made it look pretty, but it tastes the same, probably.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. Very good. Very good drink. I love this drink. This is one of my favorites, I think, because I love a fruity cocktail.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. And I wanted to do this one because it had the cherry and the raspberry liqueur. A lot of what we've done have been mango and passion fruit. Right. Fruity drinks. And those we've had so many of those that they've just kind of all blended together to where they end up tasting the same. So when I see that it's got something a little bit different, and this is a good one.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and and I get why they taste the same sometimes because tropical drinks in Disney go together. The weather, the atmosphere. True. So they're so good there. Yeah. That are a nice beer, a nice cold beer, like you enjoyed a few times at Jazz Kitchen. Jazz Kitchen one.
SPEAKER_00:You know what I forgot to mention in that episode was we stopped right before we got on to Monsters After Dark Guardians. We were like, let's kill some time. Let's go to this place and grab a beer.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yeah. And we just sat there.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And I had like a blonde ale or something. I forgot. You had you had a pale ale or probably an IPA. And a pale ale kind of thing. Well IPA. India pale ale.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I don't I like my nothing.
SPEAKER_00:You like them Indian.
SPEAKER_01:I'm not saying nothing else.
SPEAKER_00:So you like them Namaste Indian. So anyway.
SPEAKER_01:So we came up with a drink. Good drink.
SPEAKER_00:Blended. Okay. I tasted cherry and the raspberry. Everything else blends really well. Yeah. So this is a good one. I like this drink. I would recommend this at Enzo's. Enzo's Hideaway.
SPEAKER_01:I want to have another one. And I'm I've only had two drinks of this one. So Enzo's Hideaway came up only because we'd have never come up with Enzo's Hideaway. But this topic came up today, and then Enzo's Hideaway came up, and then we got two drinks out of it. So the topic is no, I want to I'm going to say a disclaimer.
SPEAKER_00:Huge disclaimer.
SPEAKER_01:So here's a disclaimer before we start. Hiding in the park is illegal and potentially dangerous. Disney parks have security including night patrols, surveillance cameras, and motion detectors. People that try this in real life will be caught, banned for life, and even arrested.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:This is something never to do. Don't do what we're talking about today is just for fun. We would never ever think about doing this stuff. We are we swear, Disney, we swear. We are perfect park people. We're angels in the park.
SPEAKER_00:We just finished watching Mission Impossible. What was it, Dead Reckoning? On the way on the flight. Final reckoning, whatever it was. And it just it hit us. How would Ethan Hunt stay overnight in the parks so that he could get in the next day? So that's what we're talking about today. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:How to hide in the park. Do not do this. And like we do, we did this totally different. Yes. You have one master plan.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:An in-depth master plan.
SPEAKER_00:My mission, it's called Operation Overnight Epcot.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. So yeah, you came up with a whole thing, a whole movie plot.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:Where I came up with, I did all five parks. Where you would hide in each. Where I would hide just really quick, just what I would do. Yeah. To hide just silly little ideas. Okay. So how do you want to do it? Do you want to just say your whole thing and then I'll go through mine? Or do you want me to say it like two parks? And then you give yours and I'll give my last three four parts four parks?
SPEAKER_00:There's six parks.
SPEAKER_01:Did you do three, yeah. Disneyland and DCA? Four parks and then two, or do you want me to do three and three? Three, and then you do yours, and then I'll do three?
SPEAKER_00:Sure. I don't know. I I don't know either. Why don't you do your Disneyland parks? Okay, I'll do the two Disney parks. I'll do mine, and then you can finish with your four Disney World. Perfect. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so at Disneyland, this is where this topic came up because I thought here's the perfect way to hide at Disneyland.
SPEAKER_00:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01:And there's lots of little ways you could think of at Disneyland, like hiding on Tom Sawyer Island for the night, stuff like that.
SPEAKER_00:Which they kids did back in the day. Yeah. And this is why it's a big deal. Because an older brother and a younger brother did, and then the younger brother drowned in rivers of America as they were trying to swim back to the park from Tom Sawyer Island. So well, and it's a big deal because it's just wrong. It's just wrong.
SPEAKER_01:It's just stupid. If you gotta be an idiot to break any park rules, yeah, you're an idiot.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:That's what I think. That's my own opinion. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Here's how it annoys me when I see people vaping in the parks. Like I want to throw them out of the park or go tell on them. This is yeah. Don't break the rules. Just knock them in the vape. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So here's how I'd be an idiot. So at Disneyland, a tropical hideaway, an outdoor restaurant, I would sit near the fence during the evening and slowly slide myself over the fence and slither my way across the water to the middle of the jungle cruise ride where I would hide. Maybe it's one of the guys up that pole.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Right?
SPEAKER_00:Shoot me up the pole.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, shoot me up the pole and just say.
SPEAKER_00:Maybe maybe go buy the outfit.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I had to buy the outfit first. I have a I have some outfit changes on here, so let's not do that for this one.
SPEAKER_00:Okay. I don't want to be repetitive. You can just wear your regular clothes and be on the or just hide back there somewhere.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know what it looks like there at all.
SPEAKER_00:Sit with the monkeys shooting stuff with the guns.
SPEAKER_01:Right. So yeah, that's what I would do. Exactly. Hang out at the slide over. That's my Disneyland. So for DCA, DCA, there's places I hide a DCA too, right? You can think of like easy stuff. But what I would do is I would dress up as a mannequin and stand still in the store on Buena Vista Street. Just pose. And my spirit jersey. I put like a Halloween spirit jersey hat.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Maybe get some white makeup and make yourself look pasty. Take much. Even more pasty. Even more pasty. You know, now that you mentioned DCA, where we had at Magic Key Terrace. Mm-hmm. You can just pop over the ledge and sleep on top of Grizzly Peak right there.
SPEAKER_01:With the cats. Yeah, I was imagining their security. Yeah. You know, like I th I bet it looks like a space shuttle launch area. The Disney Security. Oh, yeah. They have cameras everywhere. Everywhere and sensors and stuff every single place. Like if you weren't went on the roof, a drone would probably fly over you and say, get off the roof.
SPEAKER_00:And drop something on you.
SPEAKER_01:And drop something on you. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And all of these places that we could potentially think of, you know they've got cameras there. Yeah. They don't have a place where there are no cameras.
SPEAKER_01:I think we're overstressing that because we want to make sure everyone knows this is a parody episode.
SPEAKER_00:This is a complete parody episode. The mission impossible episode. Let's hear it, Aaron. You've done both. Okay. Break it down. So Operation Gonna get real. Overnight Epcot. So it starts with some purchases, which when added up, cost more than the park ticket, but that doesn't matter. So first you're going to need to buy a ghillie suit. For those who are not familiar with what a ghillie suit is, it's it makes you look like a bush, basically. It's just a pants and a hood and like a shirt, coat, and it just looks like plants. You need a sleeping pad. And if it's not black to begin with, you want to paint it matte black. An inflatable pillow. So ghillie suit, I've looked at about 40 bucks. Sleeping pad about 50 bucks. Okay. Because you need one that will pack down small. Inflatable pillow about 20. Light backpack, about$30. Locker rental for two days,$24. You need a large Gatorade bottle, about four bucks. This is you're going to drink the Gatorade, but that also turns into your makeshift restroom in the middle of the night. Because you can't move. And you can't wit yourself. Because that would just ruin your whole next day. And then I threw in a midnight snack, a school bread, you know. So you know, because you if you want a midnight snack during Mission Impossible.
SPEAKER_01:The preferred meal of our special forces unit around the world.
SPEAKER_00:The IMF. Is it a school bread MRE? Oh, there you go. Disney, there's an idea. School bread MREs. So mine is in four phases. You have the initial phase, the reconnoiter phase, overnight phase, and the rise and shine phase. Sit back, everybody. So phase one, initial phase. Immediately on day one, get a large locker to store above items. So you need to pack all of the stuff into your backpack. Okay. You have to make sure that you have nothing in your backpack that could cause them to check it.
SPEAKER_01:Don't they empty them all every night?
SPEAKER_00:The locker?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:No, no. You're just going to put it in there for the day. But you need to get through security with all this stuff in your backpack. Right. That's some IMF planning that I'm not going to share. Okay. That is confidential. So go about your day as you normally would. Throughout your day, casually scout bushier wooded areas. So this is you're just casually you're going around. You're just going to take notice. That is the initial phase, what you do for day one. Then there's the reconnoiter phase. So which scouting is part of that. So you're going to notice the green spaces between the country pavilions. And a couple of things to keep in mind. Do not attempt to swim to an island. Absolutely. Don't. They will see you swimming out in that lake, and they'll see you swimming back the next morning. That's just off the table. Don't do it. And another one, it's some advice from Pippin from Lord of the Rings, I believe the Two Towers. The close you are to danger, the further you are from harm. So don't just think maybe like the green spaces between country pavilions. It might just be that you're dead in the middle of the park. You find a bushy area that you can hide in. So that's what you're going to go with. Now, and then you're going to notice where all the obvious cameras are. The not so obvious cameras you're never going to find. And they're everywhere. But try to find where the cameras are so that you can maybe get dressed or whatever. Give yourself the best shot.
SPEAKER_01:So the best initial phase would be to work three years at Disney Security before you even did this. Or bring someone on your team. A team. Disney infiltration team six.
SPEAKER_00:The best way to do this is just get night security at Disney World or Disneyland. This is the best way to stay overnight at Disney.
SPEAKER_01:The best, yeah, the best way is just work a long shift.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So now's the overnight phase. So when you've reconnoited your spot that you were going to attempt, casually sit at the closest bench nearest the location. Okay. Just casually sit there. Visualize it. I'm not later in the evening. Okay. Just look around. You know, maybe you have a drink in hand. And it's journey with you. Or you're or you're drinking your Gatorade.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:And before this, you've obviously gone back and gotten your backpack. So at a certain point when there's no people around, and you know, you're looking around stuff, you'll want to quickly fall behind said bench and don the ghillie suit. So before you do that, have your backpack open and then just kind of like roll off the back and lay flat and shimmy on that ghillie suit real quick. And then you're just a bush behind the bench. It's all you are. Yeah, practice at home.
SPEAKER_01:Practice at home is very required for that.
SPEAKER_00:This is practice at home.
SPEAKER_01:Stopwatches.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. Stopwatches. So you lay on the ground until no movement in the park is detected. And then you want to slither.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:I thought that's the word you're going to use. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Slow you. I knew there would be slithering. Slow and cautious to the bush that you're going to sleep within. Okay. In the middle of it. Because you're going to look like you're part of the bush. Right. So that's where you're going to go. Just slowly move over there. And I mean slow. An inch every 10 minutes, maybe, if that's what it takes. You got all night. You got all night. Once you get there, you then you want to break out your sleeping mat. And this this might be a little overkill. Maybe you just want to sleep on the hard ground. You don't have to go on the hard. And that would probably be the safer thing to do. Just sleep on the hard ground.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I would get an inflatable pillow though. Okay. And I'll explain why. So you'll want to set an alarm that goes off very quietly, but it'll go off before daylight. So that you're up and you can start getting ready to get out of there.
SPEAKER_01:You put like air pods in and use an alarm with that?
SPEAKER_00:Well, see, I think the airpods would die before morning.
SPEAKER_01:Maybe.
SPEAKER_00:So you would just want it real quiet and you put it underneath the pillow and your head on top of the pillow. Okay. It would muffle the sound, but you would hear it. Yeah. Like one of those air-filled pillows. Right. The silencer. So, you know, get up and immediately you're going to want to slowly put away your mat and your pillow. Okay. Right before park open, you want to slither back to the back of the bench.
SPEAKER_01:You're still slithering.
SPEAKER_00:Stand on the ground, still looking like a bush. Right. Move a little. Freeze. Move a little freeze. That's just the bush. That's just the wind blowing the bush. When people begin approaching, when before they get to you, quickly remove the ghillie suit and sit up on the bench. Okay. Boom. Yeah. And then you're up on the bench. And then when they get to you, they don't think about it. You're just some random guy sitting on a bench. Right. After a few minutes, get up, get a coffee, and then walk your backpack back to your locker and stash it there for the rest of the day. Okay. And then enjoy your day at Epcot. Interesting. That is my Mission Impossible. IMF. Stay in there. That is hilarious. Parody. Parody. Parody. You did it. Do not try this and dish.
SPEAKER_01:You did it. So I will yeah, that would totally work, probably. I mean, it's fail-proof.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And you've only spent$170 on equipment. Right. And a day in the park is like$130 or$40.
SPEAKER_01:Hilarious. So my next one's Magic Kingdom. I'm going to dress up as Benjamin Benjamin Franklin. Oh. Right. And sneak on the stage of the Hall of Presidents. As Benjamin Franklin? Yeah, because most Americans think Benjamin Franklin's the president. I can just blend in. Okay. Yeah. Just hang out there. And no one ever knows. Most of the Casper's probably think the same thing.
SPEAKER_00:And honestly, the fact that you didn't get a spotlight on you and you didn't get to say words won't matter to people.
SPEAKER_01:No, because people are kidnapping.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Yeah. Good plan. Solid.
SPEAKER_01:That is legit. So for Epcot, I'm going to start at Beach Club and have a scuba suit. Dive way down in the water and scuba in. Because that works. Yeah. All the way in, right to the outside of Rosa Crown. Okay. And then emerge in the morning because there's a bunch of seating down there. No one ever uses it. No, they all sit up above. There's all that seating there. Yeah. Yeah. It'll work.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. That's a really easy one to do. That's probably the best one. And people probably won't think anything. You know, if you go over, maybe go stay over at the Swan and Dolphin and scuba from over there. Where you can get into the water without being seen. The boardwalk, you risk being seen.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. This sounded more fun.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So for Animal Kingdom, it's really simple. Because so many animals and stuff. It's either I'm gonna hang out somewhere in feather friends of flight. Okay. Or I'm not doing it at all.
SPEAKER_00:See, I thought you would have climbed up the tree of life and slept in a branch.
SPEAKER_01:I think there might be some kind of snake or something that gets out at night. Oh, that could be. Who knows what they do at nighttime there? That's true. Scared.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Totally scared. Birds or nothing.
SPEAKER_00:You could go sleep in the water with just a reed to breathe through. That murky, nasty water. That's a plan. That's funny. That's funny.
SPEAKER_01:So my last one's Hollywood Studios. Okay. This I think would be the toughest. Right. Here's what I'm doing. Okay, so first I acquire a stormtrooper outfit. Okay. And then I just have it. I just have it in the park. Like at a night. Like a Star Wars night. Yeah, yeah. Right. Because you can wear a stormtrooper outfit, right? So the night before is a storm troop. Even with the hood? I think you can wear a full costume, can't you? I thought you couldn't cover your face. You can't cover your face, but you can carry it. Oh yeah. They would never say you couldn't carry it. That's true. You can hold it like Shakespeare a play.
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah. Hamlet? Yeah. Skull. Yeah. So Am I getting my Shakespeare right? I think so. Is it Hamlet with the skull? I have no idea.
SPEAKER_01:That's why I just said Shakespeare. Okay. I don't want to be wrong. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It is Shakespeare.
SPEAKER_01:I'm just trying to think. That's all I knew. Yeah. But I stopped my jokes before my knowledge.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. It's a fine balance. And here it is. I've seen enough Shakespeare plays that I'm like, wait a minute, was that Hamlet speaking to his dead father? Is that just the scene you're referencing? Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So during Star Wars night, I hide the whole outfit.
SPEAKER_00:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:On Rise. Okay. Okay. And then in between that scene where everyone's walking to the stormtrooper thing, I quickly put the whole outfit on. Oh, yeah. And I stand there as a stormtrooper.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And no one ever knows.
SPEAKER_00:And all you do is you move back and forth. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:That's the one that's moving. That's the real one. That's what I'll say. They'll walk through and go, oh, I see the real one. Because everyone, I don't know if there is a real person there ever. No. But everyone thinks there is. Everything's yeah. Yeah. But yeah, that's our illegitimate, never do ways that we'll never try to get into the parks. That went very fast.
SPEAKER_00:So inspired, I would say, both by watching the latest Mission Impossible movie and the recent heist that happened where somebody sold Scuba into Disney Springs and stole like 20 grand from Paddlefish or one of the restaurants. Don't do that either.
SPEAKER_01:No.
SPEAKER_00:Although he got away with it. Have they? Yeah, they haven't caught him yet. I don't know. Okay. That's not on my daily news blog. DVC fan, they oh, so they did catch him, and I thought they were being serious, and they just threw Old Key Jeff under the bus. So that's hilarious. And yeah, that's it today. See, and you think of things like this, the same reason why you think of what you would do in a zombie apocalypse. It's not, it's not gonna happen. There's not gonna be a zombie apocalypse, probably not. You don't need to know what's a 75% chance of not happening, and you're not gonna stay overnight, try to sneak into the park and stay overnight at the parks. It's just not gonna happen. But it's it as a thought exercise, it can be entertaining, and so that's what parody for entertainment.
SPEAKER_01:And if you think this topic was way wrong and way out there, just email us up some topics. Say, whoa, guys, we do this every week, people. We need topics.
SPEAKER_00:Whoa, just whoa, whoa, and Disney, if you're listening, this was all Aaron's idea. Yes, it was Aaron's idea. We have the text message thread to prove it. So until next time, cheers. Cheers.
