Just a heads up, our show today has a little tiny bit of explicit language in it.

It's the S word, and I don't mean socialism.

Bernie Sanders has been in the political game, long enough to know that if you're calling

yourself a socialist in this country, you're going to have some explaining to do. So earlier this week, the presidential candidate tried to do just that.

Explain himself. So a little background for everyone.

Jordan Weissman covers economics and policy for us at Slate. Bernie Sanders. He's a Democratic

socialist. He calls himself a Democratic socialist. Everyone knows that. He's not a Democrat. He's not a socialist. He's a Democratic socialist.

Thank you all very much for being here.

Bernie's speech was supposed to be a kind of socialism 101.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, and I quote, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism,

but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God's children,

end quote.

What stood up to me watching it was that he kept coming back to what socialism means to me.

To me, right?

It was very personal.

Like, yeah, like here's what I mean by democratic socialism.

Yeah.

Economic rights are human rights.

Thank you. Economic rights are human rights. And that is what I mean by democratic socialism.

It was billed as a speech that was going to define this phrase.

Again, he was going to take a second cut at it.

But it was actually a little bit broader. Technically, this speech had a name, how democratic socialism is the

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