Airplane Glue or Whatever Ya Got! | SCP-1481

The SCP Experience

Dr. NoSleep Studios

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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A recyclable coffee cup offers unlimited wishes—but every wish it grants makes reality less stable, less logical, and far more personal. This story is derived from⁠⁠ ⁠The SCP Foundation Database⁠⁠⁠ and is released under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0.⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Author: Jake Bible CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and depictions of violence intended for adults. Parental guidance is strongly advised for children under the age of 18. Listener discretion is advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The research assistant sets the plastic cup on the table.
0:09.0	I can't remember his name.
0:11.0	Daniel or Dennis or Donna or something doesn't matter.
0:16.0	He'll probably be gone in a few weeks anyway.
0:19.0	Either burnout or be transferred away to a different
0:22.2	foundation site. They've been doing that more and more lately, transferring good research
0:27.4	assistance to other sites. I'm starting to take it personally.
0:31.2	Do you need anything else, doctor? The assistant asks. He glances at the plastic
0:37.3	cup with the green arrows symbol on it, signifying it can be recycled
0:41.6	easily, which is the biggest joke of it all.
0:45.8	The plastic cup will never see a recycling center, even if it wasn't held here in this
0:50.4	foundation site.
0:52.2	Nah.
0:53.2	This thing would see the landfill just like all the rest of the plastic that folks think it recycled.
0:59.0	Doctor?
1:00.0	The assistant asks.
1:01.0	Would you like some coffee for this cup?
1:03.0	I look up at the assistant and frown.
1:06.0	You want to pour hot coffee into an anomaly?
1:09.0	You think that is a good idea?
1:11.5	I ask.
1:14.2	Well, no, I guess not.
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