Joe was being disingenuous.
He said he didn't feel like she took a shot at him right before briefly touching on his theory that this was all some long term attempt at a smear campaign by Charlemagne, that involved ebony k, rory and mal, Olivia dope, marissa, and whoever else name that was edited out.
One of them isn't being honest. Joe said they had no relationship outside of work, and he was respecting her marriage. Ebony k said they would speak outside of work, they had talked about starting a podcast on Joe's network and Joe use to hit her up for advice as a lawyer, then he ghosted as soon as she got a deal with Charlemagne. Joe already ghosted marissa for her business relationships so he's full of shyt about not cutting people off over business.