. >> i remember a phone call that i received from barry cunningham when i wasn't in the monitoring room and his words were, we're in the hornet's nest here. >> i was here from about 5:00 in the morning every morning until midnight, 2:00 every night. it was miserable hot every day. everybody was miserable. everybody was complaining at me because i was the guy supposed to be handling the gear, and i just couldn't keep it cool enough. it was a learning experience, i think, for everybody there. this is the first time you actually saw what happened in a drug house. >> they were just living like regular people live. watching tv, playing video games, visit with their friends. just that normal life was interrupted by selling drugs, playing with guns and counting money. >> if there is not criminal activity going on then the court order says you have to turn off the recording devices. most often everything going on in that house was criminal in nature because there was almost always drugs around or a gun in the room. almost everyone was a convicted felon, so almost everything was criminal in natu