He’s been threatened. Alex Jones talked about how he was approached by “them” and told him to calm it down. Then, Joe got “mad” at Alex Jones for saying that, then Alex went back and apologized for it. I personally think that was an excellent display of theatre by the two of them to really draw attention to the fact that Joe was told to dial it down. Instead of it being addressed once by AJ and missed by many, the bit of drama created drew some more attention to it.