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Private Investigator: Rudy Will Win 'Survivor'

Aired August 23, 2000 - 9:23 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Tonight, millions are going to be glued to their TV sets to find out which "Survivor" walks away with the cash. The final four have appeared in a "Got Milk?" ad, as you see here. But, of course, the question is: Who got the money?

Our guest this morning says he has got it all figured out. Private investigator, a PI, Clay Fondren joins us live from L.A.

Sir, good morning to you.

CLAY FONDREN, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR: Good morning.

HEMMER: Just about everybody is talking about, front page of the "USA Today" and a whole lot of other places; who is it?

FONDREN: Rudy; Rudy is the winner.

HEMMER: How come?

FONDREN: We have a proprietary speech analysis process, and we analyze this speech of the four -- the four of the former contestants, including the producer of the show, and found that, when confronted with the question or who won or the contextual part of the interview of who one, we found the name Rudy in every occasion.

HEMMER: Come on!

FONDREN: Yes.

HEMMER: Where were you reading the lips? was this what was broadcast or what was there more to it?

FONDREN: It was all -- we analyzed speech -- sound files that we get off of television or any other source, I mean, our clients give us other files. We are able to basically break down linguistics to the sub-layer level, and we gain extra content from that.

HEMMER: All right, Clay, give it up then, what was said that you read on the lips of Rudy and others still on the island?

FONDREN: Well, from Dirk Been, after he had been voted off, in his interview, we found a proto for that. which is one of the items that we find, the term, "hide Rudy."

HEMMER: "Hide Rudy." What did that indicate?

FONDREN: When he was asked who the winner was, he said, oh, I can't say that. I can't discuss who that is or something like that. He was thinking, "hide Rudy." We are able to tell you, basically, what someone is thinking when they are speaking.

HEMMER: You say you work with a protonesis (ph) group?

FONDREN: That's right.

HEMMER: Protonesis is defined as what?

FONDREN: Protonesis is a combination of two words: "Proto," which means first; and the "nesis" comes from Genesis, which would be the -- a new paradigm. So we are basically the first to do a new paradigm, and it is in human speech recognition.

HEMMER: Some folks say 40 million people may tune in tonight. Are you going to be one of them?

FONDREN: Definitely.

HEMMER: You pretty confident where we are going with this now?

FONDREN: Very confident.

HEMMER: We will see tonight. Clay Fondren, live from L.A. Will it be Susan, Kelly, Richard or Rudy? Good luck.

FONDREN: Thank you.

HEMMER: Thank you, sir.

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