. >> i remember a phone call that i received from barry cunningham when i wasn't in the monitoring roombarry's 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. miserable hot every day. >> i was here from about 5:00 in the morning every morning until midnight, 2:00 every night. miserable hot every day. everybody was miserable. everybody was complaining at me, because i'm the guy supposed to be handling the gear, and i couldn't keep it cool enough. it was a learning experience, i think, for everybody there. this was 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, visiting with their friends. the 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