I'm Nicole Lapin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand.

It's time for some money rehab. Today we're doing another edition of my new favorite segment funny

where I give bizarre headlines from the worlds of money and business to a comedian,

and they give me their famously non-expert insight on the topic.

Today my guest is the hilarious Ben Glebe.

Ben is a comedian, duh.

You might have seen him on the young Turks or his specials like the

Mad King or neurotic gangster.

For these money money segments, I'm looking for a comedian, first and foremost, being a

money expert is certainly not a prerequisite, but Ben actually has some really sharp out-of-the-box economic

ideas that he put together when he ran for president. True story. He tells me all about it,

plus his take on the craziest headlines of the moment.

Ben Cleve, welcome to Money Rehab.

Thank you very much.

I didn't know we started. I'm excited that we started now.

Just hop right in. Tell me about a time you needed money rehab.

Oh man after my campaign ended I ran for office and then the pandemic started right after

so I had an extra year of not having my normal

comedy career before the whole world shut down and everybody didn't have their careers and so I needed to figure

out how to make money with stand-up when all venues were closed around the world.

And so I literally closed my eyes for a minute and thought, how could I create a comedy club vibe

without being in person with people? And I just closed my eyes and I thought I bet if we used a video conferencing platform and let people unmute themselves and keep their cameras on

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