 I'm talking to Michael Ruth in my home, where he's at the Philadelphia stop of his Rich Ruth tour. Now in his mid-30s, with short but shaggy brown hair and a mustache, he could be a stand-in for actor Pedro Pascal of TV series like Game of Thrones, Knuckles, and The Rest of Us. Playing guitar, he started out in a band called the Kansas Bible Company. That's taken from the movie Paper Moon.