June 8, 2024 • 14 mins
Welcome to the inaugural episode of "Who Do We Think We Are" with Tasha and Parker, aka The Diffies. Join this dynamic duo as they share their hilarious and heartfelt journey through life, love, and parenthood.
In this episode, get to know Joe Parker Diffie, son of the late country music legend Joe Diffie, and his wife Tasha, a seasoned veterinary worker. Listen as they recount their amusing first meeting at a Cracker Barrel, the challenges of raising two children, and Parker's adventures on the road. With a mix of humor, nostalgia, and genuine affection, the Diffies invite you into their world.
Don't forget to check out their socials for more updates and behind-the-scenes moments: Instagram at whodowethinkwearepodcast and TikTok at @whodowethinkwearepodcast. Leave a review and let them know what you'd love to hear in future episodes!
Enjoy the ride with Tasha and Parker as they navigate life with humor and heart.
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(00:00):
Warning, this podcast contains strong language and stories from being on tour.
We may not be appropriate for some listeners.
And welcome in to Who Do We Think We Are with Tasha and Parker, aka The Diffies.
Hi, babe. Hey, lovey. How you doing today?
(00:22):
I am okay. A little tired, but other than that, doing good.
How about you? you well i had my teeth kicked in this morning and this afternoon
didn't get home till late today but at least i got home to see you that's what
i look forward to all day i love you i love you too.
Anyway uh this is our first attempt at a podcast we figured that we have a bunch
(00:46):
of good stories we seem to be funny at least to ourselves i think we're hilarious
i think we're pretty funny so we figured why not get on and give it a shot yeah
okay all right so a little backstory,
my name is joe parker diffy if that name
sounds familiar it's because my dad
was a country music singer the late
(01:08):
great joe diffy legendary for sure
i don't care if he is in your eyes he isn't mine yeah work
a blue collar job now was on the road for about 13 14
years we've got two wonderful children boy
and a girl boys 24 girls 14 gives us
the business oh my god she's going on about 26 right now i am just terrified
(01:33):
of her turning up in a bar somewhere oh no oh no if you hear a slight noise
in the background that is our little yippy dog also known as ruby aka.
Pubes you'll probably hear her on here from time to time because she's noisy and she's high-pitched,
she is for such a little thing she really is
(01:55):
makes a lot of noise especially in the morning when i'm trying to
sleep well she's just the poops correct correct anyway i am 43 years old i am
right at about 5 11 and i'm a virgo and i like long walks on the beach and you
know i don't know how this thing's actually supposed to go you know you try
(02:15):
to introduce yourself and make
yourself known to people and you know
you want to be you want to be comfortable and you want to be yourself and be
genuine so to let you know i'm a little bit of a goofball i do find myself with
a ill-timed and inappropriate dad joke i do find myself inserting my foot directly,
(02:39):
most of the time, but that's okay. That's why we have a microphone in front
of me now. This should be absolutely exciting. Great plan.
Well, that's me, babe. Why don't you tell the people about yourself?
Well, hey friends, my name is Tasha. If you didn't know, I just turned 40.
Don't tell anybody though, okay? It's a secret. And I have worked at a veterinary
(03:03):
office for the past 18 years.
I have done everything you could pretty much do without being the doctor there.
And making his paycheck.
Correct. Like a couple of those leads.
Me too. Me too.
Anyway, babe, why don't you tell these fine people how we met?
Well, I was 19 years old and I walked into a cracker barrel.
(03:26):
I was dating another woman at the time. Oops. Yeah. Whoops.
So I walk into this cracker bar we
sit down it turns out that the the lady i'm dating is
friends with with one of the
young ladies that works at this particular establishment oh
just little old me oh just little old you so we
(03:46):
sit down and of course at this age i am young and
broke desperately broke and bright blonde hair
oh just i mean like some of
you will get it some of you will not super saiyan gold just
stand up on end hair it was fantastic
uh we'll post some pictures on our socials we'll plug those a little bit later
but yeah i i sat down and i ordered a cup of coffee and this cute little brunette
(04:15):
come waddling out the back what'd you call me a little brunette,
I thought you said redneck.
Well, you have lived in Tennessee for a little bit, babe. Hi,
have we met? Right, hi. No, you're a city girl all the way.
But this little brunette comes out and almost spills the coffee on me.
(04:36):
Lies. You're a terrible waitress. Okay, yes.
We could talk about that later. Yeah, yeah. Stories for another time.
Sets the coffee down, and I immediately start flirting with this one cute,
adorable little sassy brunette.
(04:57):
Sassy is right. Sassy is right. She was still shy.
Done true anyway so
time passes i'd say probably four or
five months somewhere in there and i
end up back in this cracker barrel and
still there i'm with a buddy that loyalty is
key right i'm with a buddy
(05:19):
at the time we sit down at a table and i
recognize this little brunette
wandering and around and it's busy
in there i mean there's she's she's working
like a like a six top and she's got
like another four seater and then a couple of two seaters so she's just running
ragging so i recognize it and i i to tell you the truth i was like oh my god
(05:44):
what is her name oh well dude i hadn't seen you in like five months and we met one time i thought i was
pretty unforgettable actually unforgettable that's you
babe you are unforgettable no but as soon as i saw you
i recognized you're better with faces than i am with names i can't help it it's
(06:07):
the add in me yeah so i finally remember her name tasha that's it tasha it was
also on the apron i I was wearing, sir.
So there's that. Listen, you ain't got to say nothing. I was trying to make
it romantic like I remembered out of the blue.
Okay, so I saw her apron and remembered her name. She did not recognize me,
(06:32):
however, because I had changed quite a bit.
Yeah, you were bald. You had just buzzed your head.
And I had only seen you with bright blonde hair in the one time.
Right? Mm-hmm. So, all of a sudden, this bald-headed, earring-wearing goober hollers your name.
(06:55):
Yeah, and I, like an idiot.
Am looking around like, I don't see anybody I know. Wanders off.
She comes back out. She has two pictures. She has a water picture.
She has a sweet tea picture on the tray. and she's wearing a blue button-down
shirt, khaki pants, which is the uniform, the usual uniform for your Cracker Barrel employees.
(07:20):
She had a cute little apron on.
No. I thought it was cute. Well, I'm glad you did. So I holler her name again.
She turns around. This time I put my hand down.
Because I'm still looking around like a moron. So I've got my hand up like I'm
trying to ask a question in class.
And I'm pretty sure I looked at you and I said, what?
(07:44):
Ew. I didn't say ew. I said, what? That's gross. I don't like that. I said, what?
And then once you got closer and recognized me without hair.
I had some shit talking to tell you. Then we had stories to tell.
Got your number then i asked if
(08:05):
i could take you home you did and i remember
you said you gotta ask my that's my stepdad he's
in the back hang on i'll go get it now rewind just a little bit now i'm hollering
her name now before that the reason that i have the the bravery to holler out
(08:25):
is because my buddy is facing the kitchen.
And he leans over to me and goes, hey, hey, don't look now.
Man, there's a cute girl looking at that kitchen.
Yeah, I'll tell you when to look. So we paused for a second.
Well, we had already talked by this time. Yeah, by this time we had already talked. Yeah.
(08:48):
Hollered her name. She goes back to the kitchen. Almost drops the water pitcher. Why? Not long.
Okay, maybe. me anyway so she's
in the back apparently i want to hear it from your perspective
because my perspective is i'm sitting at the table and the
gentleman that i'm with says hey man don't look now but there's this cute girl
(09:08):
looking at you from the kitchen that girl she's man she's checking you out pretty
hard so we time it and i spin around and there's tasha leaned out peeking her
head in the doorway of the kitchen at Cracker Barrel with a friend whose head
(09:28):
is just above hers peeking out from the back of the kitchen.
Yep. So there's two floating heads staring at the back of my bald head.
Right? So I spin around and I catch her. And we bolt.
(09:50):
Anyway So after I catch her She comes out
I get her number I ask if I can take her home My pager number Look Don't date
us like that Oh It does hurt It does It does I remember when I got my first
pager I speak pagerese Oh Me too That's right Me too,
(10:12):
8008S Stop.
Well i speak pagerese babe okay,
I'm surprised that nobody uses the 9-1-1 now in text message.
Oh, you're right. Anyway, I pick her up. When I go to pick her up,
I meet her stepdad, Tony.
Wonderful guy. Love him. Known him for years.
(10:35):
Pops. Oh, Pops. I meet Pops. I shake his hand. At this time,
he's working for Cracker Barrel. Shake his hand.
He's very polite. still has kind of
a look of concern with a uh big
ugly bald-headed man shave-headed man
not bob not bald like that i got hair yeah
(10:57):
i was buzz head yeah shaved head so i pick her up and we get my s10 pickup teal
green oh yeah that was my first vehicle my first vehicle i love that truck And
I'm pretty sure you showed up music bumping with your.
Well, I had $10,000 worth of freaking stereo. That's why I was broke.
(11:20):
I put all my money in my truck.
No, that thing sounded fantastic. 12 inch rocker, Fosgate, push 1200. Oh, let's go.
Anyway, so I pick her up and our goal is to talk mess about the girl that I was dating at the time.
(11:40):
Before i met tasha who i had just broken up with we go down to top mess and we go down by,
percy priest dam and there's this nice little
uh this nice little tuck away down there and so
we get down there and i think she's expecting a little bit of a little bit of
(12:00):
makeout session not makeout session you were expecting a little bit of a makeout
session you don't love maybe like a smooch oh maybe like a smooch.
Anyway, so we sit and we talk for about 30 minutes, 45 minutes.
(12:21):
I drive her home. I drop her off and I walk her up to the door.
And again, I think she's expecting something more. Oh, Lord.
So I kind of hold back a little bit because I don't want to seem like,
you know, I didn't want to seem like that jerk who just tries to.
I felt like you were special. I didn't want to be like just trying to jump your,
you know, jump your bones.
(12:41):
I was special. Well, duh. Duh, that's why I was so keen to take a step and, you know.
Be a gentleman. Be a gentleman and not be uber aggressive and be like,
hey, later on you're going to send me pictures, right? Ew. That's gross.
You know, that was before iPhones.
(13:02):
Oh, thank God. That was before iPhones.
Okay, we're just making ourselves sound old now. I know. Anyway,
so I dropped her off and we haven't looked back since.
No, been together ever since.
Through putting a kid through college, raising children.
Losing family. Losing family, making a home.
(13:25):
Making life. Making friends. Absolutely. Making memories. Mm-hmm.
You know, that's what we do around here. Anyway, all right, you guys don't forget
to check out our socials.
Instagram is whodowethinkwearepodcast. podcast
tid talk is at who do we think we are podcast
yes go give us a like share follow all
(13:46):
those things that the cool kids say don't forget to stop by and leave a review
as well as that tells us how we're doing tells us what you'd like to hear more
of and it keeps us in the know as to what you are listeners are wanting to hear
yeah and guys let us know on socials what you want us to talk about.
(14:07):
Outstanding. Well, babe, I'm going to sign this thing off. But before I do,
I love you more. I love you most. You guys have a great one. Bye.
Warning, this podcast contains strong language and stories from being on tour.
We may not be appropriate for some listeners.
And welcome in to Who Do We Think We Are with Tasha and Parker, aka The Diffies.
Hi, babe. Hey, lovey. How you doing today?
(00:22):
I am okay. A little tired, but other than that, doing good.
How about you? you well i had my teeth kicked in this morning and this afternoon
didn't get home till late today but at least i got home to see you that's what
i look forward to all day i love you i love you too.
Anyway uh this is our first attempt at a podcast we figured that we have a bunch
(00:46):
of good stories we seem to be funny at least to ourselves i think we're hilarious
i think we're pretty funny so we figured why not get on and give it a shot yeah
okay all right so a little backstory,
my name is joe parker diffy if that name
sounds familiar it's because my dad
was a country music singer the late
(01:08):
great joe diffy legendary for sure
i don't care if he is in your eyes he isn't mine yeah work
a blue collar job now was on the road for about 13 14
years we've got two wonderful children boy
and a girl boys 24 girls 14 gives us
the business oh my god she's going on about 26 right now i am just terrified
(01:33):
of her turning up in a bar somewhere oh no oh no if you hear a slight noise
in the background that is our little yippy dog also known as ruby aka.
Pubes you'll probably hear her on here from time to time because she's noisy and she's high-pitched,
she is for such a little thing she really is
(01:55):
makes a lot of noise especially in the morning when i'm trying to
sleep well she's just the poops correct correct anyway i am 43 years old i am
right at about 5 11 and i'm a virgo and i like long walks on the beach and you
know i don't know how this thing's actually supposed to go you know you try
(02:15):
to introduce yourself and make
yourself known to people and you know
you want to be you want to be comfortable and you want to be yourself and be
genuine so to let you know i'm a little bit of a goofball i do find myself with
a ill-timed and inappropriate dad joke i do find myself inserting my foot directly,
(02:39):
most of the time, but that's okay. That's why we have a microphone in front
of me now. This should be absolutely exciting. Great plan.
Well, that's me, babe. Why don't you tell the people about yourself?
Well, hey friends, my name is Tasha. If you didn't know, I just turned 40.
Don't tell anybody though, okay? It's a secret. And I have worked at a veterinary
(03:03):
office for the past 18 years.
I have done everything you could pretty much do without being the doctor there.
And making his paycheck.
Correct. Like a couple of those leads.
Me too. Me too.
Anyway, babe, why don't you tell these fine people how we met?
Well, I was 19 years old and I walked into a cracker barrel.
(03:26):
I was dating another woman at the time. Oops. Yeah. Whoops.
So I walk into this cracker bar we
sit down it turns out that the the lady i'm dating is
friends with with one of the
young ladies that works at this particular establishment oh
just little old me oh just little old you so we
(03:46):
sit down and of course at this age i am young and
broke desperately broke and bright blonde hair
oh just i mean like some of
you will get it some of you will not super saiyan gold just
stand up on end hair it was fantastic
uh we'll post some pictures on our socials we'll plug those a little bit later
but yeah i i sat down and i ordered a cup of coffee and this cute little brunette
(04:15):
come waddling out the back what'd you call me a little brunette,
I thought you said redneck.
Well, you have lived in Tennessee for a little bit, babe. Hi,
have we met? Right, hi. No, you're a city girl all the way.
But this little brunette comes out and almost spills the coffee on me.
(04:36):
Lies. You're a terrible waitress. Okay, yes.
We could talk about that later. Yeah, yeah. Stories for another time.
Sets the coffee down, and I immediately start flirting with this one cute,
adorable little sassy brunette.
(04:57):
Sassy is right. Sassy is right. She was still shy.
Done true anyway so
time passes i'd say probably four or
five months somewhere in there and i
end up back in this cracker barrel and
still there i'm with a buddy that loyalty is
key right i'm with a buddy
(05:19):
at the time we sit down at a table and i
recognize this little brunette
wandering and around and it's busy
in there i mean there's she's she's working
like a like a six top and she's got
like another four seater and then a couple of two seaters so she's just running
ragging so i recognize it and i i to tell you the truth i was like oh my god
(05:44):
what is her name oh well dude i hadn't seen you in like five months and we met one time i thought i was
pretty unforgettable actually unforgettable that's you
babe you are unforgettable no but as soon as i saw you
i recognized you're better with faces than i am with names i can't help it it's
(06:07):
the add in me yeah so i finally remember her name tasha that's it tasha it was
also on the apron i I was wearing, sir.
So there's that. Listen, you ain't got to say nothing. I was trying to make
it romantic like I remembered out of the blue.
Okay, so I saw her apron and remembered her name. She did not recognize me,
(06:32):
however, because I had changed quite a bit.
Yeah, you were bald. You had just buzzed your head.
And I had only seen you with bright blonde hair in the one time.
Right? Mm-hmm. So, all of a sudden, this bald-headed, earring-wearing goober hollers your name.
(06:55):
Yeah, and I, like an idiot.
Am looking around like, I don't see anybody I know. Wanders off.
She comes back out. She has two pictures. She has a water picture.
She has a sweet tea picture on the tray. and she's wearing a blue button-down
shirt, khaki pants, which is the uniform, the usual uniform for your Cracker Barrel employees.
(07:20):
She had a cute little apron on.
No. I thought it was cute. Well, I'm glad you did. So I holler her name again.
She turns around. This time I put my hand down.
Because I'm still looking around like a moron. So I've got my hand up like I'm
trying to ask a question in class.
And I'm pretty sure I looked at you and I said, what?
(07:44):
Ew. I didn't say ew. I said, what? That's gross. I don't like that. I said, what?
And then once you got closer and recognized me without hair.
I had some shit talking to tell you. Then we had stories to tell.
Got your number then i asked if
(08:05):
i could take you home you did and i remember
you said you gotta ask my that's my stepdad he's
in the back hang on i'll go get it now rewind just a little bit now i'm hollering
her name now before that the reason that i have the the bravery to holler out
(08:25):
is because my buddy is facing the kitchen.
And he leans over to me and goes, hey, hey, don't look now.
Man, there's a cute girl looking at that kitchen.
Yeah, I'll tell you when to look. So we paused for a second.
Well, we had already talked by this time. Yeah, by this time we had already talked. Yeah.
(08:48):
Hollered her name. She goes back to the kitchen. Almost drops the water pitcher. Why? Not long.
Okay, maybe. me anyway so she's
in the back apparently i want to hear it from your perspective
because my perspective is i'm sitting at the table and the
gentleman that i'm with says hey man don't look now but there's this cute girl
(09:08):
looking at you from the kitchen that girl she's man she's checking you out pretty
hard so we time it and i spin around and there's tasha leaned out peeking her
head in the doorway of the kitchen at Cracker Barrel with a friend whose head
(09:28):
is just above hers peeking out from the back of the kitchen.
Yep. So there's two floating heads staring at the back of my bald head.
Right? So I spin around and I catch her. And we bolt.
(09:50):
Anyway So after I catch her She comes out
I get her number I ask if I can take her home My pager number Look Don't date
us like that Oh It does hurt It does It does I remember when I got my first
pager I speak pagerese Oh Me too That's right Me too,
(10:12):
8008S Stop.
Well i speak pagerese babe okay,
I'm surprised that nobody uses the 9-1-1 now in text message.
Oh, you're right. Anyway, I pick her up. When I go to pick her up,
I meet her stepdad, Tony.
Wonderful guy. Love him. Known him for years.
(10:35):
Pops. Oh, Pops. I meet Pops. I shake his hand. At this time,
he's working for Cracker Barrel. Shake his hand.
He's very polite. still has kind of
a look of concern with a uh big
ugly bald-headed man shave-headed man
not bob not bald like that i got hair yeah
(10:57):
i was buzz head yeah shaved head so i pick her up and we get my s10 pickup teal
green oh yeah that was my first vehicle my first vehicle i love that truck And
I'm pretty sure you showed up music bumping with your.
Well, I had $10,000 worth of freaking stereo. That's why I was broke.
(11:20):
I put all my money in my truck.
No, that thing sounded fantastic. 12 inch rocker, Fosgate, push 1200. Oh, let's go.
Anyway, so I pick her up and our goal is to talk mess about the girl that I was dating at the time.
(11:40):
Before i met tasha who i had just broken up with we go down to top mess and we go down by,
percy priest dam and there's this nice little
uh this nice little tuck away down there and so
we get down there and i think she's expecting a little bit of a little bit of
(12:00):
makeout session not makeout session you were expecting a little bit of a makeout
session you don't love maybe like a smooch oh maybe like a smooch.
Anyway, so we sit and we talk for about 30 minutes, 45 minutes.
(12:21):
I drive her home. I drop her off and I walk her up to the door.
And again, I think she's expecting something more. Oh, Lord.
So I kind of hold back a little bit because I don't want to seem like,
you know, I didn't want to seem like that jerk who just tries to.
I felt like you were special. I didn't want to be like just trying to jump your,
you know, jump your bones.
(12:41):
I was special. Well, duh. Duh, that's why I was so keen to take a step and, you know.
Be a gentleman. Be a gentleman and not be uber aggressive and be like,
hey, later on you're going to send me pictures, right? Ew. That's gross.
You know, that was before iPhones.
(13:02):
Oh, thank God. That was before iPhones.
Okay, we're just making ourselves sound old now. I know. Anyway,
so I dropped her off and we haven't looked back since.
No, been together ever since.
Through putting a kid through college, raising children.
Losing family. Losing family, making a home.
(13:25):
Making life. Making friends. Absolutely. Making memories. Mm-hmm.
You know, that's what we do around here. Anyway, all right, you guys don't forget
to check out our socials.
Instagram is whodowethinkwearepodcast. podcast
tid talk is at who do we think we are podcast
yes go give us a like share follow all
(13:46):
those things that the cool kids say don't forget to stop by and leave a review
as well as that tells us how we're doing tells us what you'd like to hear more
of and it keeps us in the know as to what you are listeners are wanting to hear
yeah and guys let us know on socials what you want us to talk about.
(14:07):
Outstanding. Well, babe, I'm going to sign this thing off. But before I do,
I love you more. I love you most. You guys have a great one. Bye.
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