My podcast description won't update.

Hi,
Around a year ago I created my podcast through podomatic:
podomatic profile page link: http://www.podomatic.com/profile/48389
itunes subscribe link: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/podcast/palooza-podcast/id775971126?l=en
I would like to update/edit my podcast page description and individual podcast description on itunes, due to some recent changes. I have edited the descriptions on podomatic, yet it will not show up on itunes.
Any help to resolve this porblem will be much appreciated.
thankyou
Cal Lewis

Your feed is at http://paloozapodcast001.podomatic.com/rss2.xml
As far as I can see the itunes subtitle and summary tags match what appears in the iTunes Store and when subscribing. What exactly is not appearing as you expect?

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