the pride of new jersey, everybody, kevin smith. [ cheers and applause ] stick around. we're cooking a meatball. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: our next guest -- our next guest is a talented chef and owner of several celebrated boston restaurants, via matta, radius. on october 11th, he'll be back in new york for the "meatball madness" event part of new york city's wine and food festival. please welcome chef michael schlow, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: what's going on, man? good to see you buddy. >> thank you for having me on. >> jimmy: kevin gonna help out, too. >> that's right kevin's gonna help today, too. >> jimmy: it's good to see you, buddy. thanks for coming on the show. i'm a fan obviously. and a friend of yours. >> yes, you are. >> jimmy: but then i saw you on i saw you on "top chef masters." >> yeah. >> jimmy: what a performance on that. >> well, thank you. it's for charity, remember that. >> jimmy: no, i'm not remembering that, because you were so bad. you got thrown off of the first episode. >> it was those damn girl scouts. usually i ca