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The mind-altering parasite segments of the recent casts kept knocking around some old memory, and this weeks episode finally dislodged it. You might be interested in checking out a sci-fi short story called "The Giving Plague" by David Brin. (Apparently he also wrote the story for one of the Ecco the Dolphin games, and, to quote Wikipedia, "had already written a few stories about intelligent dolphins in his Uplif Universe").