Joe is a disrespectful prick who is always late to streams with other people, streams from his car, talks over and interrupts when other speak.
If Joe and Nick stream together, they will always be late, ill-prepared for the trial and have nothing productive to say about what is going on because they did not even bother to read a summary of the previous trial to know all the witnesses.
Nick would have been better off if he had picked a trial that was not as widely streamed and reported as the Read trial, because then the fact that he had no fucking clue what was going on would not have been as obvious.
On the other hand, Joe could teach Nick all the tricks how to dodge collection, he will need it come December.