I figured it out. Jeash I can’t believe what the problem was…
Since I was editing in a 29.97 timebase with the 24p (NORMAL) footage all I had to do was set the FIELD DOMINANCE to “Upper (odd)”. I thought I tried this before, but I might have just tried it with the footage I tried to do REVERSE TELECINE on.
So to sum up. With 24p NORMAL, you have to edit on a 29.97 timebase, you cannot reverse telecine, and you have to have a field dominance set. If you don’t set the field dominance it looks pretty bad, every 3rd and 4th frame is interlaced. With the field dominance set to UPPER, every 5th frame is basically a duplicate of the 4th frame, which is how 24p should look on a 29.97 timebase.