@nik202 - thanks to you 
I tried running rasa shell --debug and it looked fine to me. I got the responses I was expecting to.
I’m using firefox. I deleted the cookies and cache and was able to see the responses. However, I am still getting this error:
2021-11-06 22:20:11 ERROR asyncio - Task was destroyed but it is pending!
task: <Task pending name=‘Task-9’ coro=<TCPConnector._resolve_host() running at C:\Users\viowa\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\aiohttp\connector.py:865> wait_for=<Future pending cb=[_chain_future.._call_check_cancel() at C:\Users\viowa\anaconda3\envs\proto2\lib\asyncio\futures.py:357, <TaskWakeupMethWrapper object at 0x000001DC37842C10>()]> cb=[TCPConnector._create_direct_connection..drop_exception() at C:\Users\viowa\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\aiohttp\connector.py:1002]>
and then this error over and over again
WARNING:rasax.community.services.event_consumers.event_consumer:Saving event failed due to an ‘IntegrityError’. This means that the event is already stored in the database. The event data was ‘{“sender_id”: “5752f4ce74fe43bb8da450744121eca4”, “event”: “action”, “timestamp”: 1636233662.5223117, “name”: “action_listen”, “policy”: null, “confidence”: null, “action_text”: null, “hide_rule_turn”: false}’. (sqlite3.IntegrityError) UNIQUE constraint failed: conversation_event.conversation_id, conversation_event.timestamp, conversation_event.type_name
[SQL: INSERT INTO conversation_event (conversation_id, type_name, timestamp, intent_name, action_name, slot_name, slot_value, policy, is_flagged, data, evaluation, rasa_environment) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)]
[parameters: (‘5752f4ce74fe43bb8da450744121eca4’, ‘action’, 1636233662.5223117, None, ‘action_listen’, None, None, None, 0, ‘{“sender_id”: “5752f4ce74fe43bb8da450744121eca4”, “event”: “action”, “timestamp”: 1636233662.5223117, “name”: “action_listen”, “policy”: null, “confidence”: null, “action_text”: null, “hide_rule_turn”: false}’, None, ‘production’)]
(Background on this error at: http://sqlalche.me/e/13/gkpj)
I have no idea what that means 