His father is Charles Coristine, who bought the snack company LesserEvil in 2011 and runs it as chief executive. His maternal grandfather was Valery Martynov, a KGB lieutenant colonel who spied for the FBI and CIA in the 1980s and was executed in Moscow in 1987 after Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen betrayed him.

Shit doesn’t fall far from the shit tree, Randy.

Asked what kind of people he wants, he said: “I wanna see people like ‘Big Balls,’ or Ed, as we call him colloquially.

“Ed” was the colloquial name.