# Frank Well
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Franklin G. Wells (March 4, 1932 – April 3, 1994) was an American businessman who served as president of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until his death in 1994.
== Life and career ==
Wells was born in Coronado, California and traced his ancestry back to the Mayflower. He attended Pomona College, which he left as Phi Beta Kappa in 1953.
US Public School is Not Bad—It’s A SCAM!
In this episode, Simone and Malcolm Collins dive deep into the surprising ways American public schools have started to resemble multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes. From endless fundraisers and donation drives to the rise of for-profit school photo companies and Scholastic book fairs, they explore …
Roy E. Disney: The Guardian of Walt Disney’s Legacy
Today marks the anniversary of the passing of Roy Edward Disney, a figure whose influence on The Walt Disney Company is profound yet often understated. While Walt Disney is remembered as the visionary dreamer, Roy E. Disney spent his life ensuring that dream was protected, honored, and never allowe…
Disney's Legal Labyrinth: Insights from Ed Nowak (Part 2)
Show #274. In this episode of the Skull Rock Podcast, hosts Aljon and Dave Bossert engage in a lively discussion about the recent changes at Lucasfilm, with Kathleen Kennedy stepping down and Dave Filoni taking the helm, sparking discussions about the future of the Star Wars franchise and its impac…
1. Making Homelessness Rare and Brief
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Welcome to Good For What?, a podcast series from HousingLab.world and GoodForWhat.org that explores how artificial intelligence, data, and design can be used ethically and effectively to end homelessness and improve housing stability.
Our conversations center around …
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
In 1984, the Walt Disney Company was worth more dead than alive. Disney Animation — the heart of Walt's famous flywheel — had stagnated for years, bleeding away talent while corporate raiders circled, salivating over offers to sell off the film library to MGM and offload the parks to hotel operator…
The Seven Summits: Climbing Every Continent’s Highest Peak
The Seven Summits challenge invites ordinary people to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents, turning a once-elite pursuit into an attainable global quest. Dick Bass, an American businessman, and his partner Frank Wells pioneered the concept, proving that determination and reso…
Detours #1: Production Designer David L. Snyder on Making "My Science Project" (1985) and "Super Mario Bros." (1993)
Welcome to the Disney Outlands DETOURS: A companion show to the Disney Outlands podcast, featuring in-depth conversations with special guests about the behind-the-scenes making of Disney productions that you can’t find on Disney Plus or Hulu in the United States.
In this first Detour episode, Leif…
Disney Deaths Pt. 2_ The Disney Dark Ages
The Disney Dark Ages weren't about death. They were about decay. After Walt Disney died in 1966, the company he built began to drift—leaderless, directionless, and increasingly irrelevant. The 1970s and early 1980s were a period of creative stagnation, financial decline, and a string of tragic loss…
Disney’s 1984 Takeover Battle and the Road to the Eisner Era (Ep. 91)
Jim Hill and Len Testa continue their chronological Disneyland series by examining the corporate upheaval that reshaped Disney in the mid-1980s. Jim traces Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold’s push for new leadership, the takeover threats facing the company, and the events that brought Michael Eisner a…
From Hard-Headed to Innovator with Rodney Ridley
What if the only thing that changed between being called stubborn and being called visionary was the world, not you?
Dr. Rodney S. Ridley Sr. is the chief economic, community and strategic development officer at Alvernia University, founding dean of its College of STEAM, and COO of the O'Pake Inst…
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