"[4] The song was featured in the segment at the 2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony of the handover from Paris to Los Angeles 2028.

He gets in the taxi and the cabbie (played by Dave Sheridan reprising his character of Doug Wilson from Ghost World) realizes he has him as his passenger.

To please him, the driver puts a copy of the "By the Way" single into the taxi CD player, making Kiedis smile slightly.

The cabbie snatches the phone and throws it out the window, then drives the car in a cloud of dust and backs up under a bridge.

While there, the cabbie pulls out flare sticks and begins to torture Kiedis through awkward dancing while the latter finally pages bassist Flea and Frusciante (with a message reading, "Help!

When Kiedis pages them for the second time, they set out on Flea's Ford Bronco to find him with the crazy cabbie in the taxi.

At the end of the video, drummer Chad Smith flags down the taxi, with the cabbie realizing he is also a member of the band, so he lets him in and drives off with him.

[6]The fast and often jerky camera angles used in the high-speed chase sequences are based on the 2000 Mexican film Amores Perros in which all the characters are linked by a car crash at the beginning of the film; before the crash is an almost identical high speed car chase sequence.