after doing a bunch of digging and searching on this forum and StackOverflow I finally found the solution.
for anyone who finds this post and needs a solution, here it is
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.1_1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.17_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libssl1.1_1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.17_amd64.deb
if the link is expired here is the archive:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/?C=N;O=A
via: python - libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - Stack Overflow