AGT 2024 WINNER Janitor Richard Goodall - ALL Performances on America's Got Talent! — Transcript

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1. 0:00my name is Richard Goodall from terot
2. 0:01Indiana I've lived in terot my whole
3. 0:04life I was that kid up in my bedroom
4. 0:06with the Radio Shack stereo my favorite
5. 0:09thing was just to sit up and listen to
6. 0:11my music and I just belt it out
7. 0:14eventually I was like I got to find me a
8. 0:16job so I become a janitor at Chanty Rose
9. 0:19Middle School which is only three blocks
10. 0:22away from my house my first job in La
11. 0:25was sweeping floors and I used to sing
12. 0:27to myself that's that's the thing how I
13. 0:29keep up my voice is this I I'm not a
14. 0:32fancy person I take out the trash I wipe
15. 0:35off the tables I sweep the floors I'm
16. 0:37just having fun and I'm trying to make
17. 0:39people
18. 0:40happy the kids would hear me sing and
19. 0:43they tell me you know that I I've Got
20. 0:46Talent that's why I'm here that's why I
21. 0:48got on a plane when I took off from
22. 0:52Indianapolis I felt that front wheel
23. 0:54come off the ground and you have this
24. 0:56this floating you're no longer stable
25. 1:00and that's what that's what this whole
26. 1:02experience is like right now I mean it's
27. 1:04a good off balance but until you
28. 1:06actually do something you don't know if
29. 1:08it's right for you or not oh I'm getting
30. 1:10chicken skinn talking about it it's time
31. 1:12to meet the judges thank you sir I'm
32. 1:14with
33. 1:25you
34. 1:26[Applause]
35. 1:27[Music]
36. 1:28hello very nice to meet
37. 1:31you and what is your name please uh I'm
38. 1:35Richard Goodall I'm from terot Indiana
39. 1:40uh and uh Richard how old are you I'm 55
40. 1:4655 and what do you do for a living I've
41. 1:50been a janitor for 23
42. 1:53years uh the kids call me Mr Richard
43. 1:57okay so tell me what the big dream is
44. 1:59please
45. 2:01my big dream uh I like to sing I love to
46. 2:05sing
47. 2:06so okay does everyone know you you've
48. 2:09come out today to audition uh just just
49. 2:13my close knit friends and and my fiance
50. 2:16Angie
51. 2:18oh is she here with you today no so
52. 2:22she's the one you're going to
53. 2:24call yeah after the audition yeah yes
54. 2:27immediately yes okay all right and the
55. 2:30song you've chosen today tell me why you
56. 2:32chose
57. 2:33it uh
58. 2:36well the song speaks for itself so okay
59. 2:40all right I'm not going to ask any more
60. 2:42questions let's do it good
61. 2:47luck ah are you a bit nervous yeah
62. 2:52uh okay Richard this has been a long
63. 2:56time coming so a bless you
64. 3:00let's go
65. 3:03Richard shake off those
66. 3:06nerves we're here we're rooting for you
67. 3:10Richard good
68. 3:16luck I hope he's good I know I I really
69. 3:19do
70. 3:25[Music]
71. 3:35just a small town girl oh
72. 3:41my what she took the midnight
73. 3:47trangle
74. 3:50way just the
75. 3:54city all ra and stop the
76. 3:58TR took them in that train going
77. 4:03any
78. 4:04[Music]
79. 4:05[Applause]
80. 4:14way singer in a smokey room so amazing
81. 4:19smell line tip of
82. 4:22you a smile that can share the night it
83. 4:26goes on and on and on and on oh
84. 4:32strangers where
85. 4:34him up and down the of the
86. 4:39Shadows searing in the
87. 4:45night street light
88. 4:51people Le just my sh
89. 4:56hid somewh in theight
90. 5:01[Applause]
91. 5:03don't stop
92. 5:06believeing hold on to that
93. 5:09be
94. 5:12stre
95. 5:18people don't stop believe
96. 5:22it hold out to that
97. 5:25feel still like be
98. 5:31[Music]
99. 5:41oh wow that was
100. 5:47amazing richer
101. 5:50rer my God
102. 6:01please open
103. 6:04the is Richard you are my
104. 6:10[Applause]
105. 6:12hero cuz that was special genuinely
106. 6:15special I think America is going to love
107. 6:20[Applause]
108. 6:22you I mean that was spectacular that was
109. 6:25fun this was an amazing surprise I think
110. 6:29you were perfect to come to AGT because
111. 6:32you made our night thank you man you're
112. 6:36beautiful you and maybe because you've
113. 6:38been doing it for 23 years but you just
114. 6:41cleaned up you
115. 6:44just you know I would imagine every kid
116. 6:48that has ever been in a school with you
117. 6:49is just screaming I just think you're
118. 6:55amazing we love you Richard
119. 7:00Richard Richard Richard you knocked me
120. 7:02off my
121. 7:04feet I mean we all had the best time
122. 7:06with you up there on that stage I really
123. 7:08really feel something when I see you up
124. 7:11there and hear you up there and
125. 7:14now this is what I'm going to do for you
126. 7:17because I love you I'm
127. 7:19late but I'm here right
128. 7:24now though I used to be
129. 7:28romantic I for God
130. 7:32somehow time can make you
131. 7:36blind but I see you
132. 7:41now as we lay in the
133. 7:45darkness did I wait to Mo long to turn
134. 7:51the light back
135. 7:56was was amazing I can't wait to see what
136. 8:00you're going to sing
137. 8:02today stuck on a hill Outsiders inside
138. 8:07the home that we build the cold settles
139. 8:11in it's been a long wind he deserves
140. 8:17it and now I think we should go and call
141. 8:20your fiance should we call
142. 8:26her oh my gosh you guys I've never even
143. 8:30been on a plane this was not on my radar
144. 8:33to come to California it's just a dream
145. 8:35come true happy you
146. 8:37[Applause]
147. 8:45came I can hardly believe it when I
148. 8:49heard the news
149. 8:52today I had to come and get it straight
150. 8:56from you
151. 9:01you said you were leaving someone swept
152. 9:04your heart
153. 9:06away from that look upon your face I see
154. 9:11it's
155. 9:11[Music]
156. 9:14true so tell me all about it tell me
157. 9:17about the plans you
158. 9:20making
159. 9:22oh tell me one thing more before I
160. 9:28go tell tell me how am I supposed to
161. 9:32live without
162. 9:34[Music]
163. 9:36you now that I've been loving you so
164. 9:43long how am I supposed to
165. 9:47live without
166. 9:51you how am
167. 9:54I get me
168. 9:59and all that I've been living for is
169. 10:04[Applause]
170. 10:09godone I don't want to know the price
171. 10:12I'm going to pay for
172. 10:16[Music]
173. 10:18dreaming now that your dream has
174. 10:23control tell me how am I supposed to
175. 10:28live without without
176. 10:32you now that I've been loving you so
177. 10:39long how am I supposed to live without
178. 10:46you and how am I supp car
179. 10:54on all that I've been living for
180. 11:02is
181. 11:21gone Richard good
182. 11:24all Heidi your golden buzzer
183. 11:30I don't know what it is with you Richard
184. 11:32but I just have a really soft soft spot
185. 11:35for you in my heart I think you're
186. 11:37incredible I felt your nerves a little
187. 11:40bit today but I also feel the passion
188. 11:42that you have when you sing with every
189. 11:44syllable that you sing I'm so happy also
190. 11:46that your fiance is doing well and I'm
191. 11:48so happy to see you on the stage again
192. 11:51well done and good good luck tonight for
193. 11:53the voting thank you Simon well Richard
194. 11:57do you now start believing in your
195. 12:02yourself cuz I really hope so yes sir
196. 12:06yes sir I really do I think you're one
197. 12:08of the most memorable contestants we've
198. 12:11had for a long long time look I'm going
199. 12:14to be honest with you Richard I wouldn't
200. 12:16have chosen that
201. 12:18song um I think it was too oldfashioned
202. 12:21for you because that was what made your
203. 12:26first audition special however the good
204. 12:29news is you nailed it and there's still
205. 12:33somewhere to go and I and if you make it
206. 12:37through you you really do have a shot of
207. 12:39winning this whole
208. 12:43competition
209. 12:45Sophia I mean I think I was crying that
210. 12:49was so beautiful I mean if this was for
211. 12:51your fiance that was I mean she must be
212. 12:53feeling so special and so happy
213. 13:00I mean it it doesn't feel like aroke
214. 13:03song this feels like something that you
215. 13:05made your own congratulations tonight
216. 13:07thank you hoe quick comment yeah vote we
217. 13:11love you you're adorable vote only three
218. 13:14are going
219. 13:15through listen Richard how does this
220. 13:18feel how does this whole experience feel
221. 13:20for you right now oh my uh Simon your
222. 13:22people behind the stage are just as
223. 13:25amazing as you folks out front
224. 13:28[Applause]
225. 13:31riseing
226. 13:33[Applause]
227. 13:35up back on the
228. 13:37[Music]
229. 13:39street did my time took my
230. 13:43[Music]
231. 13:46chances with the distance now I'm back
232. 13:49on my feet just a man and his will to
233. 13:56[Applause]
234. 13:58survive so many times it happens too
235. 14:02fast you trade your passion for
236. 14:07Glory don't lose your grip on the dreams
237. 14:11of the past you must fight just to keep
238. 14:14them
239. 14:18life it's de I'm the tiger it's the F of
240. 14:23the fight rising up to the challenge of
241. 14:26our rival and the last counted by the
242. 14:30STS is praying the night and he's
243. 14:33watching us go with
244. 14:36the of the
245. 14:38[Applause]
246. 14:46tiger rise it up straight to the
247. 14:50top head the G got the
248. 14:55glory with the distance now I'm not
249. 14:58going to stop just a man and his will to
250. 15:03survive see the
251. 15:06time the fight ring up to the challenge
252. 15:10of our rival and the last no surv the St
253. 15:15is cing the night and he's watching is
254. 15:18always the
255. 15:20end of the time
256. 15:24[Applause]
257. 15:30woo oh
258. 15:32yeah yeah I'm the
259. 15:39[Applause]
260. 15:42cero
261. 15:46[Applause]
262. 15:50a we the ch
263. 16:06Richard good come over here heidy you
264. 16:10golden
265. 16:14Buster are you kidding me right
266. 16:17now I'm not kidding I mean really are
267. 16:19you kidding me right now epic
268. 16:22performance epic performance honestly I
269. 16:26thought that you could not talk but
270. 16:28you've done last time but you did it you
271. 16:31topped it you topped it topped it topped
272. 16:33it America please you have to vote for
273. 16:38Richard Simon are you pumped right now
274. 16:41I'm pump I'm PP
275. 16:44Simon are you pump right now you P I was
276. 16:49so um super
277. 16:52P it was the last song in the world I
278. 16:56would expect you to sing
279. 16:59doesn't matter because people love
280. 17:04you
281. 17:05and there's nothing
282. 17:09like something ironic about the fact
283. 17:12that you've chosen a real Underdog song
284. 17:17and you all like the underdog in a way
285. 17:19but in a really positive way and it was
286. 17:22like you just got to the top of the
287. 17:24steps I love that Sophia I love that you
288. 17:28pick such an iconic song the people love
289. 17:31you I mean it was
290. 17:34amazing I'm so happy for you enjoy this
291. 17:39ho you know everybody has has said
292. 17:42everything I'm very pumped and speaking
293. 17:45are you I think I'm as pumped but not as
294. 17:47big as the heart this guy have you have
295. 17:49the biggest heart in this whole
296. 17:51competition we feel the love and we love
297. 17:56you r
298. 18:00into the Midnight
299. 18:03[Music]
300. 18:04Sun wheels go around around you on my
301. 18:11mind Restless
302. 18:14Hearts see belone
303. 18:19tonight sending all my love long the W
304. 18:27yeah say the the road in no place to
305. 18:30start a
306. 18:35f right down the light been you and
307. 18:42me love a music matter and all what it's
308. 18:47supposed to
309. 18:49be oh girl you
310. 18:53st by
311. 18:56me I'm forever about
312. 19:03Yours
313. 19:05[Music]
314. 19:08Faithfully be a his all this love
315. 19:15found two strangers are to fall in love
316. 19:21[Music]
317. 19:24again I get the
318. 19:27joy dis discovering
319. 19:30you oh girl you
320. 19:34stand
321. 19:37my and
322. 19:39forever
323. 19:42[Music]
324. 19:44your
325. 19:48[Music]
326. 19:54Faithfully
327. 19:57wo w
328. 20:03[Music]
329. 20:07fful I
330. 20:11[Applause]
331. 20:15still I'm for
332. 20:19[Applause]
333. 20:19[Music]
334. 20:23[Applause]
335. 20:32[Music]
336. 20:43Fai Richard
337. 20:47good Heidi your gold buzzer you were
338. 20:51nervous how do you feel
339. 20:54now
340. 20:55Richard I have been Faithfully your
341. 20:59biggest fan since the very very first
342. 21:01day we met all the way through this
343. 21:05competition you are such an amazing man
344. 21:08you're so humble you're so kind you're
345. 21:11also a little bit quiet but not when you
346. 21:13are behind the microphone then you're a
347. 21:17big rock star I am so happy that we met
348. 21:20because it really touched my heart and I
349. 21:23hope that everyone at home felt the same
350. 21:25way and I hope that everyone is going to
351. 21:27work for you I I want you to win this so
352. 21:30bad Richard Simon his place is working
353. 21:33wow wow
354. 21:37wow Richard I could feel the energy
355. 21:42behind me
356. 21:44honestly from the minute you came on the
357. 21:47show you've never
358. 21:49crumbled you haven't you've risen and
359. 21:53you know what we all need a hero right
360. 21:57now and you are our
361. 22:02Heroe you know not only is a hero not
362. 22:05only is it great I will make a
363. 22:07prediction right now I think you just
364. 22:09sang yourself $1 million I believe this
365. 22:14is the
366. 22:16winner Richard America has watched you
367. 22:19evolve from a janitor into a rockstar
368. 22:23how has this AGT Journey changed your
369. 22:26life uh in so many ways
370. 22:29um uh I don't have the words anymore
371. 22:33thank you America thank you terot
372. 22:36Indiana MidWest America thank you all I
373. 22:39love
374. 22:40[Applause]
375. 22:45you hey Heidi your hand binoculars are
376. 22:49ridiculous stop it you don't understand
377. 22:52they're not binoculars yes they are no
378. 22:54what it does it takes the light outside
379. 22:57from the outside and it gets darker
380. 22:59around and then I can actually see
381. 23:00better I need my glass FOC into some pop
382. 23:03sometimes exactly so it's not so bright
383. 23:06because when it's so bright I can't see
384. 23:07what they're doing and I need to judge
385. 23:09so my family and I are watching Ag and
386. 23:11my dad says is Beyonce always on this
387. 23:14it's Tyra
388. 23:15[Music]
389. 23:16Banks or is it Blue Ivy Blue Ivy sit
390. 23:20down right now mama I got to host this
391. 23:23show Blue AGT made Simon cow so soft
392. 23:28[Applause]
393. 23:29easy reader why am I yes for
394. 23:32me I'm on Simon The Savage back the one
395. 23:36who crushed dreams and made people cry
396. 23:38for fun
397. 23:40off what is the best thing about being
398. 23:42Simon
399. 23:44cowl the best thing about being you well
400. 23:48it's cat
401. 23:50right hi when I was uh at school and I
402. 23:53was very bored briefly yeah briefly yeah
403. 23:56I kind of thought hopefully when I'm
404. 23:58older I can do a job where I have fun
405. 24:02and I don't have horrible bosses and now
406. 24:06I have a job which is honestly the most
407. 24:08fun in the world uh so and you are the
408. 24:11horrible boss and
409. 24:17[Music]
410. 24:22I'm I got
411. 24:23it that is Heidi having lunch feel it's
412. 24:27Heidi chewing something Heidi chewing
413. 24:32chips sounds like a hamster is eating
414. 24:36something oh my gosh it's the guy
415. 24:39crushing the nuts with his butt
416. 24:42cheeks Mr Cherry I love
417. 24:45[Music]
418. 24:48him it was hard it really hurt hi Simon
419. 24:52you are my family's favorite judge
420. 24:54believe it or not um but if you had to
421. 24:57choose between your America's Got Talent
422. 25:00judging panel or your Britain's Got
423. 25:03Talent judging hello hello which one is
424. 25:06your favorite and why oh well to be
425. 25:11fair they are more intelligent in
426. 25:14America in America in America yeah no
427. 25:18they are I don't mean that
428. 25:19disrespectfully they just you don't mean
429. 25:21that disrespectfully no they are more
430. 25:24intelligent um what Heidi clump
431. 25:30she's sick as big
432. 25:35now now he can't be stck he'll just
433. 25:37say anything he wants as I said he'll be
434. 25:40out of
435. 25:41control taking that to a side um look
436. 25:45it's difficult I like them both uh I
437. 25:47like these guys because they're sort of
438. 25:51stupid what word do you think he's
439. 25:54thinking of and vice versa what do you
440. 25:56think hoe is is thinking of one word and
441. 26:00when I count to three you're going to
442. 26:02say that word out loud clear your minds
443. 26:05okay this is a mind reading technique to
444. 26:09show that you guys are in perfect sync
445. 26:11okay okay read her mind 3 2 one
446. 26:18earring earring and shoes look at each
447. 26:21other deeply in the eyes deeply 3 2
448. 26:26oneish
449. 26:28look at each other
450. 26:29deeply understand each other 3 2 one
451. 26:38lick this is freaking
452. 26:42lipstick e the power word you have it
453. 26:47yeah y have it I got it 3 2 one
454. 26:53handsome what did y'all say
455. 26:56handsome handsome that was not by the
456. 26:59way this is crazy I swear on my life
457. 27:02that was not press I didn't plan that
458. 27:04what are the three things that you love
459. 27:06about yourself um humility uh yes uh
460. 27:10charm good looks humility generous uh I
461. 27:15like people I wear great clothes I'm
462. 27:19funny um I'm great fun to have dinner
463. 27:21with and breakfast and lunch um great to
464. 27:24go on holiday with um I like guys I like
465. 27:27girls I like animal I know you do I know
466. 27:30you do let's straight let's Replay that
467. 27:34clip again we have evidence ladies and
468. 27:38gentlemen I like girls I like guys can
469. 27:42you you finally said it and you got
470. 27:44animals as well we're not going there
471. 27:46David welcome to buzzer buddy hoe If you
472. 27:50were cleaning out Simon's closet what
473. 27:52would you throw away first if I was
474. 27:54cleaning out Simon's closet you've got
475. 27:56very minimal choices here cuz he wear
476. 27:58the same thing yes it's between the
477. 28:01white T-shirt and the white dress shirt
478. 28:03and or the bell bottom pants the white
479. 28:06T-shirt the white Simon everything oh
480. 28:10that is everything you know what I'm
481. 28:12going to give you that point is
482. 28:14everything I am giving you that point
483. 28:15what do you think audience they deserve
484. 28:17that point that's pretty much all that
485. 28:19Simon wins if you could see Sim cow for
486. 28:23a day what would you do don't answer
487. 28:25don't answer that cuz she she there be
488. 28:28Simon for the day if I could be Simon
489. 28:30for the day yeah if you could be Simon
490. 28:32for the day what would you do I would
491. 28:35make love to
492. 28:41[Music]
493. 28:45me I know you closed your eyes there was
494. 28:47that just the image going through your
495. 28:49head or I you know what his sense of
496. 28:53smuttiness gets worse on a nightly basis
497. 28:57how I I want to say this from from my
498. 29:00heart here uh what you have done for the
499. 29:03show and as a friend as one of the most
500. 29:06amazing people I've ever worked with I
501. 29:09wanted to pay you a tribute to
502. 29:13show your significance and most
503. 29:16importantly your importance for the 10
504. 29:19years you've been on the show over
505. 29:23you it's out on Sunset Boulevard okay
506. 29:27let's take a look
507. 29:28here we go count it down with me people
508. 29:31where am I looking 5 4 3 2
509. 29:53one what is that real yeah
510. 30:01so David we've seen a lot of good magic
511. 30:03acts on the show so far but don't you
512. 30:06agree with me that the real magic on the
513. 30:08show has to be
514. 30:10Simon that's funny question for you
515. 30:14what's his name um Karen Karen that's a
516. 30:16great question well yeah I mean it's
517. 30:18magical how a man of 85 still looks like
518. 30:22that he's he's had some assistance of
519. 30:25some kind is he my goodness um yeah it
520. 30:30is it is Magic it is fun I actually the
521. 30:33weird thing is although I know you
522. 30:34pretty well I actually do get star
523. 30:37struck every time I see you I go oh my
524. 30:39God it's not a cow every time it's the
525. 30:42weirdest thing that's weird do you get
526. 30:45star struck with him no there you go got
527. 30:49[Music]