The experience of genuine life and death drama, the proximity to a bona fide explosion. These things can never be trivialised but both are part of Darrell Currie's ascension to master of ceremonies for the fireworks show that constitutes Scottish football.
The 37-year-old has been the ringmaster for BT Sport's coverage of the Scottish game for eight years and the broadcaster's impact has been akin to the Glasgow kiss of the city that produced him.
'It has been fiery,' he admits of nights with Chris Sutton, Alex Rae, Stephen Craigan and Ally McCoist. 'It has got heated a few times before we went on air when a couple of the boys were barely talking to each other after a row.