If Saturday was the end of the world as we know it, where would you want to be? What would you want to be doing? And who would you want to be doing it with? More than 100 Takeaway listeners responded to our questions. Kevin Earley, auto parts store manager, father of five, and devout Takeaway listener, told us his end of times wish was to host The Takeaway. So we gave him his wish! We hear from him and other Takeaway listeners.

We reported yesterday on a lawsuit brought against test-prep giant Kaplan by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who accused the company of discriminating against African-American job applicants by using credit histories in their hiring processes. As it turns out, Kaplan is hardly the only company to do so. According to Takeaway listener Christina Tobin, her bankruptcy filing report has overshadowed her new accounting degree in her job hunt.

David Sloan, an early Tea Party member, wrote to The Takeaway on Thursday that he fears the Tea Party is being co-opted by the Republican Party. We wanted to speak more with him about what his particular fears were, and where he draws the lines of difference between the Republican agenda and his own. 

Kelvin Whitehurst, is 28 years old, lives in Nashville, Tenn., and has lived most of his life in and out of poverty. He believes it was the lack of drive to succeed during his school years that contributed to most of his life living under the poverty line. That lack of motivation, he says, came from not having anyone show him the right way, which he did not recieve when he was a child living in foster care.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a case that may test the limits of free speech. 

The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas will argue before the nation’s highest court for their constitutional right to protest outside soldiers’ funerals with signs reading things like "God Hates Fags."

We discuss this groundbreaking case later in the show but, in the meantime, we asked you: What’s something you’ve heard or read that you thought should be outlawed?

A lot of you responded to our conversation Monday about whether or not to go through with pre-natal testing for Down syndrome. One response in particular stood out: mother-to-be Jocelyn commented on our website that her fetus had tested positive for Down syndrome, and she planned to continue the pregnancy. Some of her caregivers, however, had assumed that she would terminate her pregnancy. To respond to Jocelyn's comment, we have Dr. Andrea Price, OB/GYN at the Women's Health Alliance of New Jersey.

We've been asking you to call or text us your economic haikus and we've gotten some pretty amazing poetry. Today, Natasha Albornoz of Miami, Florida, joins us with her haiku and explains her motivation.  Natasha's haiku after the jump.

We asked Takeaway listeners to weigh in on President Obama's plan to spend $50 billion on infrastructure to stimulate the economy. If you had the money to spend, where would you send the check? 

Lindsey Swift wrote on our Facebook page:

“Water resources and management, waste disposal, upgrade ports, high speed internet everywhere, diversify transportation options, establish comprehensive energy smart grid.”

Each Friday morning this summer, we're asking musicians, artists and music lovers to weigh in on what makes a perfect summer song. Last week we spoke with "Saturday Night Live's" Fred Armisen to get his picks. For him, summer music has to be either really upbeat or slow enough to elicit memories of long hot summers of the past. The Takeaway listeners evidently have strong opinions about the topic, as well. Many have called in or written to us to share their ultimate summer songs.

It took federal investigators only 53 hours to locate and arrest Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of attempting to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square area.  

• FLOOD TAKEOUT: 24 people have so far been confirmed dead in the floods that hit the Southeastern United States. More than half of those killed are in Tennessee. We get a live update from WPLN Reporter, Blake Farmer, in Nashville, Tenn.
• LISTENERS RESPOND: Following an attempted car bombing in New York City’s Times Square on Saturday, Takeaway listeners write and call in to share their experiences of the importance of being vigilant.

Below: Video from the floods

Arizona governor passed a controversial immigration law and you had a lot to say on the topic. We hear your responses. Beyond immigration, we got a head-start on our special broadcast from WDET in Detroit and asked Takeaway listeners to share their favorite parts of Motor City living. 

As we've been marking the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, we've found that people can think about the war in vastly different ways, depending on how close they are. We hear from those who've served, those who see the soldiers return, and even those for whom the war is far from their minds.

All this week we've been talking about the war in Afghanistan, eight years since it first began. It's the war that might have been forgotten in the shadow of the Iraq War. We hear some of the stories you've been sending us.