Editing description for podcast episodes

I was wondering if anyone knew how to edit the description when you upload a new episode of your podast?
Everytime I upload a podcast it defaults to this description <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelightcomedy.wordpress.com&blog=62035293 &post=45&subd=thelightcomedy&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />
I upload my podcast onto auphonic to create a mp3 link, then I upload it to wordpress where feedburner reads it and sends it to itunes. I read that you are supposed to edit the info when you save it as an mp3 or ma4 before you upload it to auphonic, but that did not work as it still gave me the same description.
If anyone can point me in the general direction of where to edit the description for each episode for how it appears on itunes I would be grateful.
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