diff --git a/src/cogs/onion_feed.py b/src/cogs/onion_feed.py
index 18c6b08..a1e5ca9 100644
--- a/src/cogs/onion_feed.py
+++ b/src/cogs/onion_feed.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class RSSItem:
 
 class OnionFeed(commands.Cog):
     SOURCE = "https://www.theonion.com/rss"
-    EPOCH = datetime.datetime(2024, 7, 7, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
+    EPOCH = datetime.datetime(2024, 7, 1, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
 
     def __init__(self, bot):
         self.bot: commands.Bot = bot
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ class OnionFeed(commands.Cog):
 
     @staticmethod
     def parse_item(item: BeautifulSoup) -> RSSItem:
+        description = BeautifulSoup(item.description.get_text(), "html.parser").p.get_text(strip=True).strip()[:-1]
         kwargs = {
             "title": item.title.get_text(strip=True).strip(),
             "link": item.link.get_text(strip=True).strip(),
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ class OnionFeed(commands.Cog):
                 item.pubDate.get_text(strip=True).strip(), "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"
             ),
             "guid": item.guid.get_text(strip=True).strip(),
-            "description": BeautifulSoup(item.description.get_text()).p.get_text(strip=True).strip()[:-1],
+            "description": description,
             "thumbnail": item.find("media:thumbnail")["url"],
         }
         return RSSItem(**kwargs)