For those who missed Artie on Conan the other night, here's the video. I guess he is wearing a lot of make-up, but I would have never noticed otherwise.

(Side note... what the heck do you do with a sponsor who refuses to pay you?)

Sirius Satellite Radio will air 24 hours of music performances from The Howard Stern Show, this Independence Day, starting at 6am ET.

The memorable musical performances will also feature commentary from the bands as well as from Stern show regulars. All without a single repeat throughout the 24 hour broadcast.

"The Music of Howard Stern" special starts on Wednesday at 6am ET on Howard 100 (ch 100), and at 9am ET on Howard 101 (ch 101).

"Cabbie" - real name Lee Mroszak - was fired by Sirius Satellite Radio on Thursday after claiming that he had a Howard Stern sex tape. But Cabbie thinks he was really fired because of a lawsuit over a botched weight-loss product promotion.

Cabbie says he destroyed the tape Wednesday after talking to his biological mother, who hadn't seen him since giving him up for adoption as a baby.

"Howard helped me find my mother, and she said, 'What are you doing?' I'm a lot of things, but I'm not a [bleep]bag," Cabbie told Page Six. "I took the high road [by destroying the tape before it could be made public]. It was something I didn't want on my soul."

But when Cabbie appeared on the Opie & Anthony show recently (6-19), he didn't indicate at all that he had destroyed the tape, though he did say that he might throw it out. He also professed his independence from the Howard Stern show during the segment.

An Orbitcast reader sent in audio of Cabbie's appearance on the O&A show. You can listen to it here:

Cabbie claims the tape was given to about two years ago and said he could have sold the tape for a large amount of money. When asked to describe the alleged Stern sex tape, Cabbie told the Post, "It was Howard and a woman having sex at a place where rich people go to sun themselves. That's all I'm going to say." Oddly enough, this differs from the description Cabbie gave on the Opie & Anthony Show, where he describe the act being performed in an RV-like vehicle.

Regardless Cabbie, who was a DJ on Sirius' Faction (ch 28), claims on his website that he was fired over the $100 million lawsuit against Stern and Sirius. The lawsuit made by weightloss product i57 Ignite, charges Stern/Sirius with defamation after Howard said that Cabbie looked "fatter than ever."

[New York Post]