Even if Fox executives decided to make an offer, O'Brien may well be barred from appearing on another network for a year or more, depending on the contractual arrangement hashed out with NBC.
Instead, he advises they wait until they're ready to come clean because it's always better to make one apology and do it well, than have to re-apologize and create another news cycle.
We can readily describe sensations of butterflies in the stomach or feeling weak in the knees when things go well, but we are less aware of the ways that kissing helps us to make a reliable assessment of another person.