I figured it out - meaning it’s working now.
I stopped my rasa server, and hit refresh on my browser with http://localhost:5005 and I STILL got the Hello message, which clearly shouldn’t have happened.
I apparently already had a rasa server running somewhere else, which occasionally happens some times and since I’m on Wonderful Windows, I have to go to Task Manager and kill all the python 3.7 processes. Once I did that, I spun up the Rasa server again, ran uvicorn and it works now.
Couple strange things about that -
1 - I didn’t get a port conflict message when I fired up the 2nd rasa server
2 - if 2 were running you’d think one of them could serve up the api call
All is well now though.