John Frusciante appeared as himself being interviewed by the other three band members. Anthony Kiedis played a character called Johnson Hammerswaddle, Flea played Todd the Squirrel, while Chad Smith played weatherman Randy Raindrops. The band made the announcement in a YouTube video where they dressed as newscasters for a fictional news channel called KHOT News. On September 24, 2021, the band announced that they would embark on a world tour in 2022, their first with John Frusciante since 2007 and that it would be in support of their as yet to be announced twelfth studio album. It is the band's highest-grossing tour to date, with over $300 million in revenue. The tour was the seventh highest-grossing of 2022 grossing $177 million.
The tour began in Seville, Spain, in June 2022 and is tentatively scheduled to conclude in July 2024 in Maryland Heights, Missouri. The tour is the band's first in five years and their first in fifteen years with guitarist John Frusciante, who returned to the band in 2019. The Global Stadium Tour is an ongoing concert tour by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers in support of the band's twelfth and thirteenth studio albums, Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen, which were released on April 1, 2022, and October 14, 2022, respectively.
