Lunch at LinkedIn New York City (Empire State Building offices)

A group of friends visits the LinkedIn office in the Empire State Building and gets a free lunch buffet with jerk chicken, shrimp, plantains, and kombucha. They ride the elevator to the 80th floor for panoramic views, then head down to eat and catch up about past connections.
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I'm gonna make a movie out of today. All right, sweet. Waiting for Big Easy. Big Easy, you got the key? That's what I'm just looking for. Okay, key. We're good, we're good, we're good. Yeah, boys are good. Subway card. We'll do a double subway card, double action. We'll double hop it. Which lift is it going to be? It's going to be, uh, this one. Money, money. Little Easy, Little Easy does it again. Where are we off to today, Damo? Empire State Building, top of the world. Yeah, Daniel used to work at LinkedIn, so he's still got some connections there. We're gonna go check out the Empire State Building. Concrete jungle, baby! Morning. No recording in the lobby, please. Express Lane, the red carpet experience. Welcome to the world's most famous building, and you get to see you've built. Keep your arms and legs inside and keep your eyes open. See those hot rivets flying through the air? Nice catch, Lou! Get those planks out of the way, huh? Oh hey, watch it! What's coming up here? What are you talking about? Hey, Bucky, you going to ride that thing all day. Do something useful, will you? All right, we're coming up to the 80th floor. You're headed to the top of the Empire State Building, right here in the heart of New York City. Um, I'll send it to you. Get ready for this. Freedom Empire State Tower, Statue of Liberty. Such a cool view. This city goes forever. It is literally a concrete jungle. You even got over the other side, across that bridge. You can't really see it across that bridge, and you get into Brooklyn. Let's go for a quick tour around. We'll do a lap. Salesforce, H&M, MetLife. Hello. I'm sorry, but microphones are not allowed. Microphones? Yeah, really? So you have to detach it and put it in your bag. Put it in the bag. Okay, no worries, we'll do that. Exit to the left, please. It was only a quick stop up top. Now we're going down to the LinkedIn offices. Have a nice day. You too, thank you. There you go, dip it in there. I can't dip. Oh, sorry. So funny, always exactly— thank you. It's, it's— oh, wrong way. Thank you. Well, I won't go this crazy, just tell me, uh, well, here, I'll show you where I am. Chuck is You're gonna see all sorts of people then. They're gonna say, "Hey, Ian!" We can just pull off somewhere at a power station or something. What do you say? I mean, we can go— Do you want me to go to meet him, bro? What? I just have a car. We're about to have food. You wait for this. Can I get without the bread? Yeah, yeah. Get the brisket, please. Would you like me to put it on your plate or this plate? Yeah, that'd be great. Vegetarian. On your plate? Okay. So it means it's healthy. Oh, thank you. It's a vegetarian option only. It's a sandwich option. Oh, I got it. Oh, it's all good. Oh, you can put a little bit of beans in? Oh no? Oh yes? And what kind of sauce like? I mean, topping? Uh, pickles, relish, mayonnaise? Say again? Uh, mayonnaise is good, yeah. This is amazing. Let me take you on a little tour. Now the food's taken care of, I've had my first course, we can go explore and I won't be too tempted to try everything, but I'm probably going to try any— probably going to try everything anyway. What do we have here? This This is some Italian-based food. Look at the pasta. Not me, man. Troubles just follow me. Like, try— like, I'm trying, man. I don't even— look at that right there. Wake up and like, you can help yourself to everything. Got some sandwiches here. Keep going around. Salad bar. It just keeps going. Kombucha on tap. Wow, mini cafe inside. All right, back where we started. Got potato salad options, got meat sandwiches, got plenty of roast vegetables. One food, staying healthy over there. Then we come over here. Okay, got some more salad, got some fresh meat. Thank you. This is spicy jerk chicken right there. Got some more roast potatoes. You all know how much I love food. I'm in heaven. Time for seconds. All right, we got round 2. Check it out. I don't know if you can see it. Hold on. There we go. We got some jerk chicken here. We got some shrimp. Plantains. Terrible filming there, doing it like a reverse angle. And of course, an apple. Apple a day in the Big Apple. Got like 3 drinks going on right now. Got the espresso, kombucha, and the sparkling water. I mean, how can, how can you not take a free feed? Building, cuz you saw Charles, yeah? Yeah, saw Charles. Did he tell you about that? Yeah, Charles, that's I'm the one that told him. Oh wow, this is the last time. So when you hanging out? I said Thursday. Oh, perfect. Get a message to me, to him, and tell him I'll be down there at 1 in 10 minutes. Okay. The world is abuzz. The old Empire State Building is like electric right now. Damian Harrison, the master. Back on American soil. Correct. The first place he came, he came to us. Correct. Into office at 115. That's how we're that fortunate. He came to us first. He's back. He's back. Land of the free. I found more food. There's free food everywhere. I love this place. We're going to the office where a lot of work got done. That's a shithole, but our shithole. We're off to the second office now, the most important part. Little bar across the street where the real deals get done. Exactly. It's epic office, epic office. Look at that Empire State Building, goes right up. What's going on? And that accent. The fame. This is what happens. That's what you get when you crush deals in the bar. Look at this place. Hey, they don't want me in here. Good to see you, buddy. Welcome to the building, my friend. Thank you. What's up, brother? Yes, good. Thank you, thank you. What a day. How was today, Damo? Huge, epic day. Top of the world and back, baby. What's the moral of the story? Relationships matter. I've been away from LinkedIn for 2 years. We roll in today, have lunch, break bread, embrace, embrace like a family. That's what it's about. La familia. You wanna go watch the sunset? Yeah, we should. Let's do it. Let's hit it. I might hit up Facebook tomorrow. We'll see. When in New York, right?
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