[There's a short pause, as Bellamy weighs the pros and cons of confessing what he ends up just admitting outright, after that pause:]

I liked history. Stuff that happened. Learning about it, it was-- [He's very gruff in saying all this, purposefully so.] --it gives context. You understand everything better. Paying attention to it makes what happens next make sense.

Guess that's no less true of your history.