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Murph: The Protector Page #2
to go in circles
and then venture out
onto the roads.
Yes! Yes!
Sports was his thing.
He loved it.
He played soccer.
He wasn't wild about soccer,
but he loved baseball.
He loved football and hockey, yeah.
Anything kind of dangerous
he liked.
And so he made the football team.
And Mike in high school
was not the Mike you see
in a SEAL uniform.
Mike was kind of a wiry guy.
He was fierce.
The hardest hitter.
Very small. He was a small guy,
you know.
He didn't weigh all that much.
But he played safety.
And he would just... he would
knock the crap out of people.
And he was fast too.
He was really fast.
He lost his spot to, actually,
Kristin's boyfriend at the time.
And he actually worked with him
to make him a better football player.
That's who he was, you know.
He knew this guy was taking his spot,
but he was gonna help him
get better.
this freshman come up, and willingly,
and mentored him
that entire season, because he knew
for the team in how he played.
After the last game,
which they lost,
the coach came out
and said to the team,
"You know what?
You guys gave up.
Every one of you,
leave your uniforms outside the door.
I don't even want to see you.
Except for Michael Murphy.
You can come in
and you can hand your uniform in,
'cause you're the only guy
that continued
to give 100% out on that field
all day long."
So this is Lake Ronkonkoma.
This is where we worked.
The boys would swim out
across the lake.
They would do it for their workouts.
They would run all the way around.
So the lifeguard stand
was right there
In my first year of lifeguard,
he was the beach attendant.
And I didn't know any...
I was at Holtsville Pool.
I didn't know anybody.
You know, I got there.
They walked me in.
They sat me on a bench.
And I hear, "Keenan!"
I'm like, "What? Where is this...?"
He was like, "Yo, it's Murph."
I was like, "Hey, man, what's going on?"
He kind of liked
the gig a little bit,
how everybody was lifeguards.
And he just from there, I guess,
what he thought was he just wanted
to become a lifeguard.
And he worked out and he trained
and the next year
he joined the lifeguarding staff.
And that was my first year.
And we all just became friends
from that point forward.
Jessica was, for Mike...
- we started work here.
- She was quiet.
working at the beach
who sat down under the shack
reading a book.
And he's like,
"You're the beach attendant.
You're supposed to clean the bathrooms
and put up the flag."
He's like, "We can't be
having a girl do that."
So then, two minutes, he's got all of us
running down the beach,
the guys cleaning the beach,
dumping the garbages.
- The goose poop.
- Yeah, pick up goose crap.
We're like, "Where did she go?
She's gone."
Like, "We just did this girl's job,
and she's gone."
She comes back.
She's got TCBY.
'Cause I went to my second job.
We didn't know, 'cause we didn't
take the time to find out,
- At night.
- At night.
- And that day and many days after
So it was a spoiled crew,
thanks to Mike, you know,
finding that little girl
- Flower child.
- Yeah, a hippie flower child.
He called her a "tree hugger."
And he always wanted
to make people laugh.
And that was his goal,
I felt like.
That's always
what he wanted to do.
I had this minivan that...
it was my dad's family car.
It was our...
we had a GMC Safari
that he passed down to me.
And Mike at one point wanted
to reenact "The A-Team" scenes.
And we would slide the door open
and glide down the road
and he tried to dive in it
while it was moving.
Corey Beach.
And he was so tired.
We had, like, a night
- And... can I say that stuff?
- Yeah.
That's all right?
So we had a night of drinking before,
and he was passed out tired.
So, you know,
he was not one
to miss out on a party.
So I actually went up on a gazebo,
climbed up on a gazebo,
threw a football at him.
And he was like... he was so pissed.
He wasn't pissed
pissed, but he...
and he went looking for me.
I was on top of the gazebo.
and started throwing rocks at me.
And I couldn't get down
unless he started... you know,
'cause he was pelting me with rocks.
So my parents... they're both
different in their ways of parenting,
but very much the same.
They were always focused
on my well-being.
So whether or not that was getting me
involved in sports to keep active
to keep my interest
in the sciences fostered.
While other kids were going out
and playing basketball, they always
wanted me to be involved in something,
to have my own identity.
My husband and I have very different
parenting styles.
And as a family, you need that.
You need to have that balance.
I was the disciplinarian.
A lot of it was left up to me,
what I wanted to participate in,
whether it was jujitsu
or Boy Scouts.
But some of it
was some gentle nudging
and letting me know
that I had to do something.
So I still appreciate that.
Now I appreciate that.
As a 13-year-old kid,
knowing that I have to get up
at 8:
00 on a Saturday,that's another story.
I don't care
what you choose to do.
It's your choosing.
We are here as parents
to make sure
that you accomplish that,
to support you on that.
But the only bargaining chip
that we have
is that...
that you have to be
a college graduate.
The first time I ever saw Murph
was day number one
at Penn State.
It was 1994.
And here, a bunch of young kids,
and as excited as hell to be on your own
and out in a big school
like Penn State.
And I'm moving my stuff
into my dorm room
and I notice this guy
right across the hall.
He seemed like a good guy.
We started speaking.
And, I guess,
30 seconds into the conversation
he mentioned he was
from Patchogue, New York.
And I said,
"You're not gonna believe this.
I'm from a little town
called East Moriches,
you know,
a good 15 minutes away."
And, you know,
the connection was instant.
We formed a bond
that first day that...
I mean, I thank God
that it happened.
He's 10 years older
than his brother John.
So when he went into college
at 18 or 19,
John was eight or nine.
And he used to bring John
up to school with him
for about a week at a time.
And I would say to him,
"Why would you have
an eight-year-old with you?"
And he'd say,
"Because he's a chick magnet."
A lot of the times he was referred to
as Murph and that was...
he even tried to get that to stick
with us as his nickname.
Mike was very superstitious.
It was incredible.
Whenever it came to sport...
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