{"podcast":{"title":"Century Lives","slug":"century-lives-4614503","podcast_index_feed_id":4614503,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/TPG7540400285","website_url":"https://longevity.stanford.edu/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/a99cd914-52d1-11ec-859d-4770efbffeac/image/0086b8f469779adeb2badbf62a71c16d.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Ken Stern","episode_count":74,"summary":"Do rules created when most people lived only to 50 or 60 still make sense when more and more people live to 100? Longer lives are among the most remarkable achievements in all of human history — and the greatest challenge of the 21st century. How can we ensure that our lives are not just longer, but healthy and rewarding as well? From the Stanford Century on Longevity, Century Lives is here to start the conversation. Join us as we venture into the world of education, work, healthcare, housing, and more to explore how our future as a population of centenarians has already begun.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503"},"episode":{"title":"Fran Drescher","slug":"fran-drescher","published_at":"2025-09-24T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503/fran-drescher","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG6779511496.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG6779511496.mp3","summary":"Look around you: Our communities are filled with people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s, doing things that would have been unthinkable at their age a generation ago. By 2030, the entire Baby Boomer generation will be 65 and older. But what does it mean to be old in an era of much longer life? Welcome to Century Lives: The New Old, from the Stanford Center on Longevity. In this season, we interview six extraordinary people who are challenging the way we think about aging. Today: Fran Drescher. You might know her as Fran Fine, the star of the hit 1990s TV show The Nanny. After a bout with uterine cancer in her early 40s, she started Cancer Schmancer: a non-profit focused on prevention, early detection, and policy change. More recently, she took on a new role: President of SAG-AFTRA, the union she’s been a member of for decades. Fran Drescher is now 67. She’s here to talk to us about how she has reinvented herself—and her industry—as she ages.","meta_description":"Look around you: Our communities are filled with people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s, doing things that would have been unthinkable at their age a gen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1771,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/century-lives-4614503/episodes/fran-drescher/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503/fran-drescher.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}