Alan Jones has had countless fiery exchanges which have landed him in hot water during his 35 years on air.
The shock jock has breached the media regulator's standards more than any other broadcaster this decade.
But the 79-year-old this morning announced he would step down from his role as breakfast host on 2GB at the end of the month due to ill health.
So as Jones puts the "full stop" on his controversial, yet powerful, radio career, here are five of his most notable stoushes.
The Turnbull interview
In 2014 then Coalition frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull was lectured by Jones in a feisty interview where he was called a bomb thrower and told he would "have no hope ever of being the leader".
"You've got to get that into your head, no hope ever," Jones said.
To start the interview though, Jones demanded Mr Turnbull give an assurance that he would back the Government's budget measures at the time.
"Can I begin by asking you if you could say after me this: As a senior member of the Abbott Government I want to say here I am totally supportive of the Abbott/Hockey strategy for budget repair."
Mr Turnbull responded with the now-famous line: "Alan, I am not going to take dictation from you."
The Everest scandal
Jones was accused of bullying behaviour after he called for the head of the Sydney Opera House to be sacked over the promotion of a horse race.
During a 2018 interview, Louise Herron objected to promoting horse names and branding of The Everest onto the Opera House and argued the iconic sails were "not a billboard".
"Who the hell do you … who do you think you are?" Jones responded during a heated conversation where he repeatedly shouted over her.
"If you don't come to the party, Louise, you should lose your job."
While Jones initially defended the interview, after coming under intense scrutiny he apologised on-air and said he "regrets" the words he used.
'Misogynistic' attack on NZ PM
Jones launched an on-air tirade in which he told Prime Minister Scott Morrison to "shove a sock down [New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern's] throat".
He also said Mr Morrison should give her a "few backhanders" and called her "a complete clown", a "joke" and "an absolute and utter lightweight".
Initially, Jones said his comments had been misinterpreted and he meant to say "that Scott Morrison should tell Ms Ardern to put a sock in it".
He was later forced to apologise both on-air and to Ms Ardern personally for what many critics described as a "misogynistic" rant.
But a powerful social media movement targeted his show's advertisers and ultimately pressured many to pull their dollars, including Coles and the Commonwealth Bank.
The 'died of shame' controversy
Remarks Jones made about former prime minister Julia Gillard during a speech at a 2012 Liberal fundraiser gave rise to bipartisan political condemnation.
In an address to the University of Sydney Liberal Club, Jones said Ms Gillard's late father "died of shame" because of his daughter's political "lies".
He was later forced to acknowledge his words may have caused the then PM distress.
"To even offer any impression that I might seek to diminish the grief that a daughter would feel for her father, independently who that daughter might be, is unacceptable," he told a press conference.
Ms Gillard later declined to take an apology call from Jones and chose not to comment publicly on the remarks.
Earlier that year, Jones was at the centre of complaints to the media regulator for suggesting Ms Gillard should be hauled out to sea.
"The woman's off her tree and quite frankly they should shove her and [Greens' leader] Bob Brown in a chaff bag and take them as far out to sea as they can and tell them to swim home," he said on his breakfast show.
Battle of the titans
It is well known that Jones and fellow 2GB stablemate Ray Hadley hold little affection for each other and insiders say they refuse to speak to each other.
Hadley, who hosts the top-rating morning show that follows Jones, has reportedly long targeted the coveted breakfast job.
Just last month a stoush erupted between the heavyweights when Hadley called Jones' program "poorly researched rubbish" over comments made on his show about the George Pell child sex abuse case.
"There are many many things I could say but I won't, good taste prevents me," Hadley said.
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