 Welcome to the 2015 NCHA World Finals, I'm here with the non-pro world champion, Joe Howard Williamson. Congratulations Joe. Thank you very much ma'am, I appreciate it. Now you came into this event some $30,000 ahead of the second place getter. What were you thinking? What was your game plan? That you could just have fun now or are you still taking it really seriously? Well I think maybe mathematically there was still a chance that Mary Joe could catch me and you never count her out because she's the best but I really thought with any luck at all I'd get along the first night and not have to worry about that and yes I kind of just decided to try to go show my horse the best I could but I didn't show all that good the first two nights, I got to check both times things didn't really go all that good but tonight things come together, I still had a late draw tonight but I marked a 2-21 and I believe I got a check and I was real proud of my horse and glad that I got through a run and showed good and everything in the year up. Now as you say you had quite a few actually really tough competitors, Mary Joe Mellon was one, Dan Hanson, I mean they've won several world championships each, how did it feel competing against them all year? Well it's tough competing and there's lots of people that haven't won the world that are tough competitors too. This is my fourth time to win the world but I can promise you one thing there's probably 20 or 30 or more people out there that can show just as good or better than I can so I'm very aware of that and I counted a real privilege to be able to show against those people and also be able to come out on top sometimes. So what made you want to chase it this year? Oh you know I don't know, I'm 61 and you know I don't know how long my reflexes will be good enough to compete at this level and I had a real nice horse and in the very first year he became crippled really after the first 10 days. I went to 10 cuttings and I believe I won all 10 of them and I thought okay here we go, well I come out of the house and go to feed the next morning after the tent show and he's crippled and I had my other horse Woody's Bad Boy who is a great horse and just as good as the that horse I'm talking about I got on him and really had a lot of success at Augusta and West Monroe Louisiana on him and I just decided you know what that other horse might get well and I'm just gonna run at it because I had a lot of money won real early and the other horse didn't get well all that quick and he's just now really getting well but I bought another couple of horses and I had one old horse nothing but a hound dog and I believe he's 16 or 17 I even showed him some so I showed five horses this year and it really increased my horsemanship and helped me cut better and everything because I had to adapt every time I changed horses sometimes I change horses every day so I had to cut the kind of cattle that fit them I had to ride them better I had to have a lot of help Austin Shepherd helped me a lot Matt Gaines helped me a bunch with them several other people did too so I had to have a lot of help to make the change over every day you can't do it on your own can you I can't maybe somebody can maybe somebody can't I don't know I can't I learned a long time ago this is 21 years I believe I've made the world finals in a row and I can tell you one thing that if you do it by yourself that's very unusual and something else you're awful lonesome yes and I mean being on the road that's part of what everybody loves because life can be tough as you well know and it's the community that really makes it memorable wouldn't you say yes it's the people you meet and the experiences you have that really is what you carry on in life congratulations God bless you thank you