First, some backstory on this week's episode of Psych called "Talk Derby to Me", which features WWE Diva Mickie James as a rollergirl and was written by Tim Meltreger, who also penned last season's episode "Dis-Lodged" and is the author of some pretty hilarious blog posts on the official Psych website over at USA Network.

Back in June The Deadbolt was invited to the Vancouver set of Psych where we spent the entire day hanging with show stars James Roday and Dule Hill, Maggie Lawson, Tim Omundson, and Corbin Bernsen as they filmed "Talk Derby to Me", about a string of robberies connected to a roller derby team that sees Maggie (Juliet) go undercover as a rollergirl.

The night prior to our visit, journalists gathered at a quiet Vancouver restaurant for a Q&A with "Talk Derby to Me" scribe Tim Meltreger and two real rollergirls who are also featured in the episode. The good and bad of our experience at dinner was that Tim sat at the other end of a long table while I sat across the table from the stunning Sydney Bennett of the L.A. Derby Dolls, a real roller derby league. While Bennett regaled me with stories of banked tracks, the popularity of roller derby, and the challenges of fighting her way through a maze of babes on roller skates, I could barely hear Meltreger at the other end. Although I missed a lot of what Tim had to say, it's not often a guy gets to have dinner with a roller girl, so all was more than well. What I did learn was how Maggie Lawson has to train for two weeks to be a roller girl so she could pull off her undercover role as a derby chick. Maggie Lawson, roller skates, derby girls and WWE Diva Mickie James... Guys, even if Psych's not your show, do yourself a favor and check it out.

So, with "Talk Derby to Me" about to finally roll on to the USA airwaves at 10pm on Friday, September 5, the Psych torch was passed to The Deadbolt's Troy Rogers, who borrowed a pair of old roller skates from his sister and glided '70s style into a conference call with WWE Diva Mickie James to talk about her time on the set of Psych and what it's like to be a wrestler.

THE DEADBOLT: How is acting in the ring different than acting on a series?

MICKIE JAMES: Well, the thing is - in the ring everything that we do, I wrestle on Monday Night RAW and everything is live, so if I mess up the whole world knows it.

THE DEADBOLT: That’s right.

JAMES: The difference, I would say, is that if I mess up on camera while we’re filming then we can cut and we can redo it and you can do it two different ways. We won’t just shoot it once. We’ll shoot it at least three times or whatever just in case. I may do something different in each take and there’s just one that we like better; whereas in the ring since everything is live you get one shot to do it and you do your best and hope for the best. It was cool to see the differences of the world as far as since everything is live on our show. There’s a lot of pressure as far as performance to be there right on time and there’s a lot of pressure as well filming just because it’s another aspect and you want to make sure that you’re open to the camera or that you hit it differently every time, whether it’s the expression on your face or whatever just so you can play with it and see which one you like the best.

THE DEADBOLT: So what surprised you the most about working on Psych that you weren’t expecting?

JAMES: How just down to earth and cool everybody was, because I was expecting everybody to be wrapped up in their own role or in their own world. I didn’t really know what to expect, so I was very pleased when I got there to be so warm and everybody was really cool and down to earth. We all laughed and we all joked and they just accepted me and made me feel very comfortable, which was really refreshing.

THE DEADBOLT: Away from the set did you get a chance to enjoy Vancouver at all?

JAMES: Yes, I did. I didn’t get to go sight-seeing or anything. I did take a few pictures of some of the locations that we were shooting in, like down by the river. I took a few pictures there. I also went shopping right there in that downtown Vancouver area. It’s always fun for me because I love to shop.

THE DEADBOLT: Since you come from the wrestling world, how do you feel about roller-derby and the roller girls?

JAMES: I have a newfound respect for them because, like I said before, the Vancouver roller-derby team was there with us showing us different stuff [to do] with roller-derby. I didn’t realize that they were as tough and that they get out there and they pretty much beat each other up a little bit. I respect that being an athlete myself and getting beat up and beating people up all of the time. I respect it a lot, because that kind of stuff takes a toll on your body. You’re not only using your mind thinking up your next move, but your body is taking punishment and it’s exhausting and you have to work on adrenaline a lot of times, too. I found it really, really neat and it opened my eyes to their world a little bit, so I have a new found respect for them.

THE DEADBOLT: So would you say the physicality is almost the same?

JAMES: No. I wouldn’t say the physicality is somewhat the same, because I think that they’re tough or whatever, but in the world of wrestling we’re on the road 300 days out of the year. We don’t have an off season and we travel from city to city and we put on a live show every night. Plus, you have to get to the gym and everything else, so I think that our industry is very demanding on your body. I know that the roller-derby, they probably do it once a week where they have a match once a week and then they have the rest of the week for their body to recuperate and then they go back to their regular jobs and it’s more of a hobby where the wrestling is my job.