The affiliate groups boycotting Jimmy Kimmel Live! missed airing — and selling ads — on what’s become Jimmy Kimmel’s most-watched monologue of all time on YouTube.

Kimmel’s return to ABC on Tuesday night (watch the video, below) featured a nearly 20 minute show opening that included the host’s emotional monologue where he thanked those who supported him during his suspension.

He also attempted to clarify his comments aboutCharlie Kirk and, most of all, passionately defended free speech.

Kimmel has many short clips from his show of sketches and guest interview segments that have racked up tens of millions of clicks over the years, but Tuesday night set a record in terms of Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue videos. The video is still going strong and averaging about 1 million views an hour.

Previous most-watched opening monologue is Kimmel discussing the details of his son’s birth and heart disease from eight years ago (which also has a soon-to-be-surpassed) 14 million views.

In second place currently is Kimmel’s break down of the Will Smith Oscars slap from three years ago (13 million views).

Other popular monologues include Kimmel discussing the 2017 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas (10 million views), and the host reacting to President Trump’s election last November (9 million views).

On ABC, Kimmel typically draws about 1.6 million viewers, but according to The New York Times, the network is expecting to generate far more than that in the official ratings— even with the Nexstar and Sinclair boycotts, which account for roughly 20 percent of the network’s stations.

“Look, I never imagined I would be in a situation like this,” Kimmel said. “I barely paid attention in school. One thing I did learn from from Lenny Bruce and George Carlin and Howard Stern, is that a government threat to silence a comedian the President doesn’t like is anti American. So I’m glad we have some solidarity on that from the right and left and from the middle–like Joe Rogan.

Maybe the silver lining from this is we found one thing we can agree on … Let’s stop letting these politicians tell us what they want and tell them what we want.”