March 24, 2025 • 17 mins
In EP4 of Season 11 of Business Matters and More Good News with Twanda Black, meet Dr. Erick V. Pagan.
Dr. Erick V. Pagan is a dentist, community advocate, and musician based in Georgia. A proud graduate of the Medical College of Georgia Dental School, Dr. Pagan has been providing compassionate dental care in rural Georgia since 1995. In addition to his practice, Dr. Pagan is known for his community outreach efforts, including programs that offer dental care to underserved populations and internships for local high school students. As the “Singing Dentist,” Dr. Pagan uses his music to raise awareness about social and environmental issues.
Dr. Erick V. Pagan is a dentist, community advocate, and musician based in Georgia. A proud graduate of the Medical College of Georgia Dental School, Dr. Pagan has been providing compassionate dental care in rural Georgia since 1995. In addition to his practice, Dr. Pagan is known for his community outreach efforts, including programs that offer dental care to underserved populations and internships for local high school students. As the “Singing Dentist,” Dr. Pagan uses his music to raise awareness about social and environmental issues.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Thank you for joining me today on Good News with
Twanda Black, where we are discovering some of the most
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hi, everybody, welcome to Good News.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm Twanda Black, your host, where we talk with folks
from around.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The world about their good news.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Because ultimately, if your brothers and sisters are doing good,
so are you.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Sit back, relax and enjoy this great conversation.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Hi, we have with us doctor Eric Pagan. He is
a dentist, a community advocate, and musician located right here
in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Now, where are you in Georgia, doctor Eric?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'm in Washington, Georgia, representing the best town in the
whole state of Georgia.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So how far is that from Atlanta?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
It's about hour and fifty five minutes, almost two hours
from from Washington Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, all right, So let's learn a little bit more
about doctor Eric Haagen. Y'all can't tell, but he's real cute.
He got a little hat on right now, but you know,
he's a little cutie. So tell us about how you
were raised.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Were you born here.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Where were you born, Well, I was My parents are
Puerto Rican so and I was born in Puerto Rico,
and I was raised here in the States anyway, in New.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
York, and then I moved to Georgia. And I've been
in Georgia Jesus for a long time, for a long
long time. Wow, Georgia is my home. It's been my
home for over over many years, forty forty years.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
But so why Georgia. Why would you move from New
York to Georgia.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Well, I just actually I went to school in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I went to school in Valdosta State, and then I
went to dental school in Augusta. And I just came
to the South as a summer missionary one time as
a teenager, and I just sat in love with Georgia
and I definitely said, you know what, I want to
go to school here. It was a lot cheaper for
me to go to school in Georgia that he was
(02:28):
in New York.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And I said, now.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
That I'll go to go to Georgia.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So I went, I came here and I applied to
dental school, got in and here.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
We are today.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So that's awesome. That is awesome. Tell us about your
dental practice. How long have you been practicing.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I've been practiced since in Washington since nineteen ninety five,
and I have a practice that I actually acquire from.
I bought a practice first, and then I brought I
bought another one in ninety five, I bought one, and
then in two thousand and six, I bought another one
and combine it in the same town for two older
(03:05):
dentists that we're retiring and actually make a bigger one
called PEG and Affinity Dentistry in Washington, Georgia, and we
just I've been there since in these new locations in
two thousand and six, and I've been involved with the
community head on from the moment that I started rolling
in these kind of services.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Do you provide?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Do you provide from the babies all the way up
or just adults?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yes, I see a lot of adults mostly, and I
see some kids. And the kids that actually let you
work on them are the one that I see. And
I see some kids, and there's a lot of kids
that let me work on them, but sometimes little kids
won't won't let you work on them anyway, and you
have to send them to pediacal dentists. But we do
a lot of We a lot of kids that actually
let you. And there's just a matter of really learning
(03:52):
from the beginning. Because when they learn and they come
with their parents into the office and they sit in
their lab and they see what you do to mom
and dad, they actually learn that and they say it's
not as bad as what it seems to be anyway,
And then when they do.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
It, they actually become better patients.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
So I have a few of them that actually have
seen them growing and already marry and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So, you know, very cool.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I'm young, but I'm older.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Okay, Okay, you're you're an old, young old spirit. Okay,
got it. So do you do dentistry like replacements? You know,
like dental teeth replacements all this news.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Do we do cosmetic dentistry? I do a lot of
dental implants.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I do a lot of extraction full my reconstructions. I
do a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
In a small town, small town Dennis have to learn,
I mean, we learn everything to do in dentistry, but
you have to do a lot of procedures that that
require of you to get training, extra training besides the
one that you have in dental school and becoming an
implantologist was one of them. Actually, I learned to place
implants surgically and it's a that I love and I
do because let.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It smile all the time. I mean, just make him.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Try to build people to smile from corner to corner, girl,
from corner.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
That is so awesome. And you built this huge practice. Now,
talk about what you do in the community. I can
tell it.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
What you can tell it.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Go ahead and tell what it is in your community
that you love so much.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Well, that's one thing I got involved. I mean in
my community. One of the things that was that were
in my community. I have programs that I have involved
in my in my in my practice that I called
reach Out community programs and where I have some internships
some high school kids that come in from high school
that are seeking to become dentist, hygienis, doctors, nurses, I
(05:50):
don't know anything to that extent, anything to health. They
come and they do an internship in our in our office.
And those that actually show some really interest in becoming
that and actually doing something great for them, selling and
educating and making themselves to move forward with that kind
of career and show some abilities to that they're you know,
(06:11):
I really want to I want to do this, and
they show that interest, they get involved with the practice,
with our practice as well and helping us grow and
all of that. Those are developed some type of scholarship
because those kids actually showing that they want to just
succeed and do well. And this year, last year was
the first year that we created the first recipient, which
she's also she's right now in the hygiene school and
(06:32):
this is her she's going to go into her second
year now in hygiene school.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
So I'm excited about that.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And I also have a program where where people can
get dental work, they exchange some help with the community,
so it kind of gets some kind of value, some
monetary value to whatever type of world that they're doing
with the community, and then the value gets exchanged.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Into the office for dinal work for them. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So that kind of helps those folks that don't have
the the means of financial resources or helps them out
to actually get bigger things done for them if they
need to.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You know, that is phenomenal.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
That is fantastic, something huge that you also did tell
me what happened where you live regarding sludge dumping and
what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Tell us what sludge dumping is.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Well, slush is some type of fertilizer that is utilized
on some fields in some states, including Georgia and South Carolina.
Any states in the United States will have that. But
there are some type of slush that can be there's
good slush and there's bad slush anyway, but you have
(07:42):
to have regulations to actually allow those dumping to occur,
and those type of to be utilized as furlizer.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
They need to actually just be the good one.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
And without regulations, that's that can't be evaluated and you
shouldn't smell that and shouldn't create ate some developed some
type of cancer issues with some people or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
So the type that we were having here was not
was not good, was not good for the environment.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It was creating some breathing problem for some people. And
and we actually actually I created a song that actually
made an impact on this change. And actually the community
was very happy to see that we actually stop this
spreading in our community. Sometimes we get some things, some
(08:30):
people trying to go in and try to sneak it
in and all that stuff, But hey, get back in
there and we just they get they get a fine
and stuff like that for doing stuff like that because
we we actually made some effort to make the politicians
and the community get involved to really say hey, we
don't want this yere, you know, and that helps a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It just yeah, absolutely the change.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
One thing that I was excited about it was that
my song called Devil was one of the songs that
actually it took that little song to.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Actually make a change on this on this.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So so how did you How did you you take
it to the radio stations?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You did internet?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
How did you put this?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
We actually I created I got together with the producer
in California.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
His name was Chris Rosa, and his name is Chris Rosa.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
He's still alive anyways, but uh, we just created a
video that was called Devil the a documentary. It's like
like a musical docu style music. He's on my YouTube channel.
Everybody can go watch that too. We filmed that in
twenty nineteen when we were having that issue with the
(09:37):
biosludge and actually, I tell you, through the years we
actually stopped this issue. But this development of this video
was the creation of the song was really just just
letting people know and creating awareness of what's happening, because
a lot of people were not aware of what was happening,
you know, And that was the key factor, just creating awareness.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
And had hit out.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I got to hit them where it counts. They love music,
that's what you did.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
So talk about.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Your your musical career, because you're the musical dentist and
you like to sing and all of that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
How long have you been singing?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Girls? I think in other lives, I was a singer.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
As well as I as I was a dentist too,
because I mean, I love dentistry and I love singing
so much that I have titled myself the Singing Dentists
you know of Georgia anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
So and I want to I want.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
To pursue that and and make every music video that
I make, every music that I write, every song that
I create, to create some my awareness about something so that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
People can actually have a change.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Of lives, of thoughts of action, you know. So that's
that's the purpose of that. But I've been singing since
I was a little kid, trust me. And I seen
to my patients and they enjoy it. And we just
always have music our practice going.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Oh, that's lovely. Now I didn't see Devil, but I
saw green Lights. I enjoyed it so much. Talk about
the storyline of green Lights, what does it mean?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I say, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yes, Talk about you know, the writing of it, What
was this all about and what made you write this song?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Well, green Lights is a positive message. And every every.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Day that I wake up and people say how you
doing today, I'm doing good, babies, because I mean it's
like it doesn't matter what happened and what happened to
you in your life.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Every day is.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
A good day because you just woke up, okay, So
that's right, that's blessed that you're alive. And it's like already,
So I want to have a green light day, baby,
So it's like everything goes well. So I thought I
always thought of a good country song with mad you know,
driving to work with the green light. Everything is green,
all your lives are green, and every red line, everything
(11:57):
that's not stopping you.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
So that's what was the song is about.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
It's just nothing can stop you. You can make things
happen because you're pushing forward. And this video was about
just having some guy that is actually involved with the community,
but he was chased by two guys.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Not knowing what they want. But he went around his community,
Hey can you help me?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And then yeah, come on in, we help you. They
help you out, they give it the green light to
help him out all the way through it, all the
way through to at the end figure out that all
he was it was being chased for these two guys
to give him, to give him some talent, some power
that they could actually to learn that, to learn that
from there on, he's going to utilize that power to
change more lives and move forward, which is what we're
(12:41):
trying to do with this with this type of music
and create some top of saga. This is part one
of saga of the videos, and then Part two is
another one. Part three is already it's already out on
YouTube Call above this guy, and we're going to promote
that one next and then I'll be recording part four
the end of April at the beginning of May somewhere
(13:02):
around there.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It looks like you guys are having so much fun
in those videos, especially at the end.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Where you're dancing. It looks like you're having a ball.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
And the best part of this is the involvement of
the community, which it really is the good part. I
get people here that they say, hey, I'm going to
do a video that can you help?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
What are you doing? What do you need to do?
And I said, I'm doing this, let's do it.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
You know have patience that even I mean, I'll tell
you if you watch the video about this guy.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
This guy has a feel in his in his farm.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
He said, I need a circle about huge and it
needs to be how big do you want that circle?
And they said you have to burn it first and
then make sure that it's clear.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Is how big do you want?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It's like just the willingness to really help is what's
so beautiful about this.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Now you know you talked about YouTube? Is that the
only place? So you talk about YouTube? Is that the
only place? So you can see the video? Do you
have a website?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
You can watch the video on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
You can get in touch with me on Eric Pagan
dot com which is E R I C K P
A g A N Ericpagan dot com. On there you
can see all what I'm all about. I have music,
I have my business.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
I'm a writer. I wrote a book.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So it's just like we just all all about what
what I'm involved with is right there on every pagan
dot com and people can follow me on Spotify and
all the other streams on their YouTube.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Music on Apple Music.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
So just have everybody follow me over there, because all
of this is really going to help me continuing doing
this this powerful thing to help delivery music to have
people change their life because every message that I want
to create and give out there is its message, a
positive message that can change lives, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We need that so much today.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We really neat positivity and and people need to know
that there are good people still out there. Everybody kind
of thinks negatively, but they're still so more good people out.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
There there is.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, what's what's the name of your book? And what
is your book about?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
My book is is a big It's called.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
A Million Dollar Smile anyway, and and it just talks
about I just talked mostly about in that book. I
talk about influence, and I talk about dental products and
things that can be done and things that can exchange
that can help people that exchange their lives with their
looks esthetic, things that can improve their esthetic and products
can be utilized.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
To to make that smile happen, you know. That's what.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Can we find that book? Can we find that book
on your website as well?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
It's over there too. You know it's over there too.
They can't. They can see. It's a collaboration of other
there's like eleven other dentists combined together to create that
book to to be part of. I was wanting one
of them to be there, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Eric Pagan is where everybody needs to go. His instagram
is at Eric Pagan Official. And make sure you check
out the green Light series. It's four songs, right, four songs. Yes,
you're gonna love green Lights.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Fantastic song.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
And Eric, thank you so much for joining us, is
spending a little bit of time and spreading that positivity.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Ladies and gentlemen, Eric Pagan, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I want, I want, I want, I want to thank
you because you're one of the instrumental people out there
too as well doing the same thing, which is spreading
positive business and all that in our community. So thank
you for allowing me to be part of your of
your program today. And and let I want to let
all know to all your listeners and all your viewers
(16:49):
that that you're awesome too, So thank you for doing that.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Okay, so I appreciate it. We we if.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
We put more people together like us in this world,
we can actually explode it to positivits.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Okay, absolutely, absolutely, God bless you, God bless you.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Thank you, by b.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Thanks so much for joining me for good News.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
If you'd like to be a guest, you can contact
me at good News at the PG network and I
will see you next time with some good news, all right,
God bless you.
Thank you for joining me today on Good News with
Twanda Black, where we are discovering some of the most
inspiring trials to trial stories and empowerment moments. Call up
a friend and let them know it's time for some
good news.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hi, everybody, welcome to Good News.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm Twanda Black, your host, where we talk with folks
from around.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The world about their good news.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Because ultimately, if your brothers and sisters are doing good,
so are you.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Sit back, relax and enjoy this great conversation.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Hi, we have with us doctor Eric Pagan. He is
a dentist, a community advocate, and musician located right here
in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Now, where are you in Georgia, doctor Eric?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'm in Washington, Georgia, representing the best town in the
whole state of Georgia.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So how far is that from Atlanta?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
It's about hour and fifty five minutes, almost two hours
from from Washington Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, all right, So let's learn a little bit more
about doctor Eric Haagen. Y'all can't tell, but he's real cute.
He got a little hat on right now, but you know,
he's a little cutie. So tell us about how you
were raised.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Were you born here.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Where were you born, Well, I was My parents are
Puerto Rican so and I was born in Puerto Rico,
and I was raised here in the States anyway, in New.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
York, and then I moved to Georgia. And I've been
in Georgia Jesus for a long time, for a long
long time. Wow, Georgia is my home. It's been my
home for over over many years, forty forty years.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
But so why Georgia. Why would you move from New
York to Georgia.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Well, I just actually I went to school in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I went to school in Valdosta State, and then I
went to dental school in Augusta. And I just came
to the South as a summer missionary one time as
a teenager, and I just sat in love with Georgia
and I definitely said, you know what, I want to
go to school here. It was a lot cheaper for
me to go to school in Georgia that he was
(02:28):
in New York.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And I said, now.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
That I'll go to go to Georgia.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So I went, I came here and I applied to
dental school, got in and here.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
We are today.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So that's awesome. That is awesome. Tell us about your
dental practice. How long have you been practicing.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I've been practiced since in Washington since nineteen ninety five,
and I have a practice that I actually acquire from.
I bought a practice first, and then I brought I
bought another one in ninety five, I bought one, and
then in two thousand and six, I bought another one
and combine it in the same town for two older
(03:05):
dentists that we're retiring and actually make a bigger one
called PEG and Affinity Dentistry in Washington, Georgia, and we
just I've been there since in these new locations in
two thousand and six, and I've been involved with the
community head on from the moment that I started rolling
in these kind of services.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Do you provide?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Do you provide from the babies all the way up
or just adults?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yes, I see a lot of adults mostly, and I
see some kids. And the kids that actually let you
work on them are the one that I see. And
I see some kids, and there's a lot of kids
that let me work on them, but sometimes little kids
won't won't let you work on them anyway, and you
have to send them to pediacal dentists. But we do
a lot of We a lot of kids that actually
let you. And there's just a matter of really learning
(03:52):
from the beginning. Because when they learn and they come
with their parents into the office and they sit in
their lab and they see what you do to mom
and dad, they actually learn that and they say it's
not as bad as what it seems to be anyway,
And then when they do.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
It, they actually become better patients.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
So I have a few of them that actually have
seen them growing and already marry and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So, you know, very cool.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I'm young, but I'm older.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Okay, Okay, you're you're an old, young old spirit. Okay,
got it. So do you do dentistry like replacements? You know,
like dental teeth replacements all this news.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Do we do cosmetic dentistry? I do a lot of
dental implants.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I do a lot of extraction full my reconstructions. I
do a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
In a small town, small town Dennis have to learn,
I mean, we learn everything to do in dentistry, but
you have to do a lot of procedures that that
require of you to get training, extra training besides the
one that you have in dental school and becoming an
implantologist was one of them. Actually, I learned to place
implants surgically and it's a that I love and I
do because let.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It smile all the time. I mean, just make him.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Try to build people to smile from corner to corner, girl,
from corner.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
That is so awesome. And you built this huge practice. Now,
talk about what you do in the community. I can
tell it.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
What you can tell it.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Go ahead and tell what it is in your community
that you love so much.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Well, that's one thing I got involved. I mean in
my community. One of the things that was that were
in my community. I have programs that I have involved
in my in my in my practice that I called
reach Out community programs and where I have some internships
some high school kids that come in from high school
that are seeking to become dentist, hygienis, doctors, nurses, I
(05:50):
don't know anything to that extent, anything to health. They
come and they do an internship in our in our office.
And those that actually show some really interest in becoming
that and actually doing something great for them, selling and
educating and making themselves to move forward with that kind
of career and show some abilities to that they're you know,
(06:11):
I really want to I want to do this, and
they show that interest, they get involved with the practice,
with our practice as well and helping us grow and
all of that. Those are developed some type of scholarship
because those kids actually showing that they want to just
succeed and do well. And this year, last year was
the first year that we created the first recipient, which
she's also she's right now in the hygiene school and
(06:32):
this is her she's going to go into her second
year now in hygiene school.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
So I'm excited about that.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And I also have a program where where people can
get dental work, they exchange some help with the community,
so it kind of gets some kind of value, some
monetary value to whatever type of world that they're doing
with the community, and then the value gets exchanged.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Into the office for dinal work for them. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So that kind of helps those folks that don't have
the the means of financial resources or helps them out
to actually get bigger things done for them if they
need to.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You know, that is phenomenal.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
That is fantastic, something huge that you also did tell
me what happened where you live regarding sludge dumping and
what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Tell us what sludge dumping is.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Well, slush is some type of fertilizer that is utilized
on some fields in some states, including Georgia and South Carolina.
Any states in the United States will have that. But
there are some type of slush that can be there's
good slush and there's bad slush anyway, but you have
(07:42):
to have regulations to actually allow those dumping to occur,
and those type of to be utilized as furlizer.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
They need to actually just be the good one.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
And without regulations, that's that can't be evaluated and you
shouldn't smell that and shouldn't create ate some developed some
type of cancer issues with some people or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
So the type that we were having here was not
was not good, was not good for the environment.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It was creating some breathing problem for some people. And
and we actually actually I created a song that actually
made an impact on this change. And actually the community
was very happy to see that we actually stop this
spreading in our community. Sometimes we get some things, some
(08:30):
people trying to go in and try to sneak it
in and all that stuff, But hey, get back in
there and we just they get they get a fine
and stuff like that for doing stuff like that because
we we actually made some effort to make the politicians
and the community get involved to really say hey, we
don't want this yere, you know, and that helps a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It just yeah, absolutely the change.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
One thing that I was excited about it was that
my song called Devil was one of the songs that
actually it took that little song to.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Actually make a change on this on this.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So so how did you How did you you take
it to the radio stations?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You did internet?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
How did you put this?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
We actually I created I got together with the producer
in California.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
His name was Chris Rosa, and his name is Chris Rosa.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
He's still alive anyways, but uh, we just created a
video that was called Devil the a documentary. It's like
like a musical docu style music. He's on my YouTube channel.
Everybody can go watch that too. We filmed that in
twenty nineteen when we were having that issue with the
(09:37):
biosludge and actually, I tell you, through the years we
actually stopped this issue. But this development of this video
was the creation of the song was really just just
letting people know and creating awareness of what's happening, because
a lot of people were not aware of what was happening,
you know, And that was the key factor, just creating awareness.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
And had hit out.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I got to hit them where it counts. They love music,
that's what you did.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
So talk about.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Your your musical career, because you're the musical dentist and
you like to sing and all of that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
How long have you been singing?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Girls? I think in other lives, I was a singer.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
As well as I as I was a dentist too,
because I mean, I love dentistry and I love singing
so much that I have titled myself the Singing Dentists
you know of Georgia anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
So and I want to I want.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
To pursue that and and make every music video that
I make, every music that I write, every song that
I create, to create some my awareness about something so that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
People can actually have a change.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Of lives, of thoughts of action, you know. So that's
that's the purpose of that. But I've been singing since
I was a little kid, trust me. And I seen
to my patients and they enjoy it. And we just
always have music our practice going.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Oh, that's lovely. Now I didn't see Devil, but I
saw green Lights. I enjoyed it so much. Talk about
the storyline of green Lights, what does it mean?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I say, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yes, Talk about you know, the writing of it, What
was this all about and what made you write this song?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Well, green Lights is a positive message. And every every.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Day that I wake up and people say how you
doing today, I'm doing good, babies, because I mean it's
like it doesn't matter what happened and what happened to
you in your life.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Every day is.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
A good day because you just woke up, okay, So
that's right, that's blessed that you're alive. And it's like already,
So I want to have a green light day, baby,
So it's like everything goes well. So I thought I
always thought of a good country song with mad you know,
driving to work with the green light. Everything is green,
all your lives are green, and every red line, everything
(11:57):
that's not stopping you.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
So that's what was the song is about.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
It's just nothing can stop you. You can make things
happen because you're pushing forward. And this video was about
just having some guy that is actually involved with the community,
but he was chased by two guys.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Not knowing what they want. But he went around his community,
Hey can you help me?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And then yeah, come on in, we help you. They
help you out, they give it the green light to
help him out all the way through it, all the
way through to at the end figure out that all
he was it was being chased for these two guys
to give him, to give him some talent, some power
that they could actually to learn that, to learn that
from there on, he's going to utilize that power to
change more lives and move forward, which is what we're
(12:41):
trying to do with this with this type of music
and create some top of saga. This is part one
of saga of the videos, and then Part two is
another one. Part three is already it's already out on
YouTube Call above this guy, and we're going to promote
that one next and then I'll be recording part four
the end of April at the beginning of May somewhere
(13:02):
around there.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It looks like you guys are having so much fun
in those videos, especially at the end.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Where you're dancing. It looks like you're having a ball.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
And the best part of this is the involvement of
the community, which it really is the good part. I
get people here that they say, hey, I'm going to
do a video that can you help?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
What are you doing? What do you need to do?
And I said, I'm doing this, let's do it.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
You know have patience that even I mean, I'll tell
you if you watch the video about this guy.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
This guy has a feel in his in his farm.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
He said, I need a circle about huge and it
needs to be how big do you want that circle?
And they said you have to burn it first and
then make sure that it's clear.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Is how big do you want?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It's like just the willingness to really help is what's
so beautiful about this.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Now you know you talked about YouTube? Is that the
only place? So you talk about YouTube? Is that the
only place? So you can see the video? Do you
have a website?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
You can watch the video on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
You can get in touch with me on Eric Pagan
dot com which is E R I C K P
A g A N Ericpagan dot com. On there you
can see all what I'm all about. I have music,
I have my business.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
I'm a writer. I wrote a book.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So it's just like we just all all about what
what I'm involved with is right there on every pagan
dot com and people can follow me on Spotify and
all the other streams on their YouTube.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Music on Apple Music.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
So just have everybody follow me over there, because all
of this is really going to help me continuing doing
this this powerful thing to help delivery music to have
people change their life because every message that I want
to create and give out there is its message, a
positive message that can change lives, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We need that so much today.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We really neat positivity and and people need to know
that there are good people still out there. Everybody kind
of thinks negatively, but they're still so more good people out.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
There there is.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, what's what's the name of your book? And what
is your book about?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
My book is is a big It's called.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
A Million Dollar Smile anyway, and and it just talks
about I just talked mostly about in that book. I
talk about influence, and I talk about dental products and
things that can be done and things that can exchange
that can help people that exchange their lives with their
looks esthetic, things that can improve their esthetic and products
can be utilized.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
To to make that smile happen, you know. That's what.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Can we find that book? Can we find that book
on your website as well?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
It's over there too. You know it's over there too.
They can't. They can see. It's a collaboration of other
there's like eleven other dentists combined together to create that
book to to be part of. I was wanting one
of them to be there, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Eric Pagan is where everybody needs to go. His instagram
is at Eric Pagan Official. And make sure you check
out the green Light series. It's four songs, right, four songs. Yes,
you're gonna love green Lights.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Fantastic song.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
And Eric, thank you so much for joining us, is
spending a little bit of time and spreading that positivity.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Ladies and gentlemen, Eric Pagan, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I want, I want, I want, I want to thank
you because you're one of the instrumental people out there
too as well doing the same thing, which is spreading
positive business and all that in our community. So thank
you for allowing me to be part of your of
your program today. And and let I want to let
all know to all your listeners and all your viewers
(16:49):
that that you're awesome too, So thank you for doing that.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Okay, so I appreciate it. We we if.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
We put more people together like us in this world,
we can actually explode it to positivits.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Okay, absolutely, absolutely, God bless you, God bless you.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Thank you, by b.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Thanks so much for joining me for good News.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
If you'd like to be a guest, you can contact
me at good News at the PG network and I
will see you next time with some good news, all right,
God bless you.
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