Help!!!! trying to submit a podcast getting "We had difficulty downloading Episodes from your feed" not sure what to do ?????

Here is the link: http://chorkorheights.com/pyshow/rss.xml
Below is the Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>PY SAYS SHOW</title>
<link>http://www.hulkshare.com/chorkorheights</link>
<description>put a description here</description>
<item>
    <title>PY SAYS SHOW: 3rd Episode </title>
    <link>http://www.hulkshare.com/q21zkw5e4zr4</link>
    <description>put a description here</description>
</item>
<item>
    <title>PY SAYS SHOW: 2nd Episode</title>
    <link>http://www.hulkshare.com/3euoq7va6hds</link>
    <description>put a description here</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

Your episodes have no playable media, and your feed is not a podcast feed. Your links are to pages with embedded players: this will not work in iTunes.
Could I ask you to read my 'get you started' page on podcasting:
http://rfwilmut.net/pc
and if you do have any questions subsequently please do post back. There's no need to post the contents of the feed: just posting its URL is sufficient, and more helpful.

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