Murph: The Protector Page #3

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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

where that white stick is.

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.

There was a little quiet girl

working at the beach

who sat down under the shack

reading a book.

Mike starts talking to Jess.

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,

- Jessica worked for TCBY.

- At night.

- At night.

- And that day and many days after

the whole beach won out.

So it was a spoiled crew,

thanks to Mike, you know,

finding that little girl

sitting there reading a book.

- Flower child.

- Yeah, a hippie flower child.

He called her a "tree hugger."

He always wanted to have fun.

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

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