The Shaft is a Minecraft podcast hosted by the Brent Copeland, along with Afromunkee, Guude and Maz (ExtremeBeyond.)
Hosts
The show's current hosts are Brent Copeland, who is known for plugging his Twitter Page, AfroMunkee, and Maz, also known as ExtremeBeyond. Two of the original hosts, Eric Fullerton and Wes Wilson both left the show. On July 17th 2014, after Eric had left The Shaft, Guude was invited on to become a permanent member, having appeared on the show before.
Guests
Most episodes of The Shaft have had a guest and the guests of each episode are as follows:
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- MinecraftChick
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- Luclin
- PaulSoaresJr
- Coestar
- Satori and AvidyaZEN
- BitBurner
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- Wolv21
- mmillss
- C418
- Simon and Lewis
- Miles
- MinecraftChick
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- Ez
- Joel Rubin and Shaun Novak
- WelshPixie
- Maz
- HuskyMUDKIPZ
- Minecraft Teacher
- BebopVox
- CaptainSparklez
- Astragali
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- Teddanator
- SeaNanners
- PhonicUK
- InTheLittleWood
- iHasCupquake
- JoeHillsTSD
- Stephoswalk
- Sam Cube
- HojjoshMC
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- Mhykol
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- dadsRfunny
- OldManWillakers
- alefnull
- PaulSoaresJr
- Hat Films
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- IJoshFTW
- Guude
- Coestar
- MinecraftTeacher
- ChimneySwift
- Capp00
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- CilantroGamer and JoeHillsTSD
- RSmalec
- LuclinWB
- Tyken132
- AKSpartanKiller
- Shawn V Martin
- Niea and Misconduct
- AntVenom
- Bashurverse and Reymas
- JCVSMC
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- Belboz and Piperbunny
- Sacheverell
- Bohtauri
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- Kupo
- Tobias Mollstam
- BlameTheController
- Daniel Kaplan
- Fans of the Show (Live Callers)
- SlyFoxHound
- InTheLittleWood
- Minecrafted
- Vareide
- GenerikB
- Aureylian
- DaveChaos and Gar
- MCGamer
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- X
- VanceCrafter
- PoolSharkWizard
- Fans of the Show (Live Callers)
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- Eepblah
- JoshSDH
- Notch
- SethBling
- PauseUnpause
- JaydenB and ERPotter
- W92Baj
- OpaqueMango
- ReNDoG
- Guude
- MusicByPedro
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- Hat Films
- BebopVox
- OldManWillakers
- TheSyndicateProject
- AKSpartanKiller
- Wolv21
- 2 Player Productions
- Slamacow
- DonkeyPuncher
- BitBurner and Astragali
- GingeCast
- Dan200
- Chris_W_2k5
- Marc Watson
- Bash-N-Paps
- VintageBeef
- LDShadowLady
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- DireWolf20
- Slowpoke101
- SkyDoesMinecraft
- Sacheverell
- BebopVox
- Chad Johnston
- SoTotallyToby
- IAmSp00n
- AntVenom
- GenerikB
- InTheLittleWood
- Jigarbov
- Moderators of the Shaft
- Ashley Mariee
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- Stampylongnose
- Call-ins
- MinecraftChick
- Zueljin
- Siyliss
- Bashurverse
- CavemanFilms
- BlameTheController
- Kricken
- Waffle
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- SethBling
- Guude
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- Nate and Sie
- VanRyderLP
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- MinecraftTeacher & Dan200
- PoetPlays
- Maz
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- Pakratt0013
- Daniel Goldberg & Linus Larsson
- PauseUnpause
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- JoeHillsTSD
- HojjoshMC
- Aureylian
- OMGitsFirefoxx
- Hannah
- Kim
- Zylus
- FyreUK
- BebopVox
- Pyrion Flax
- Sir Fedora
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- DireDwarf
- AceCraftGaming
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- Marcus B and the Funky Bunch
- Wes Wilson
- Sevadus
- JSano19
- RidgeDog
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Trivia
- On one of the episodes of the Shaft, the hosts mentioned that they had tried to get Simon and Lewis back on the show but said that they were told Simon and Lewis were really busy at the time.
- The Show didn't start getting guests until episode 10.
- Simon, Lewis, Hannah, Martyn, Kim, Zylus, SoTotallyToby, DaveChaos, Pyrion Flax, BebopVox and RidgeDog have all been on the show.
- There was a special episode between epsiode 56 and 57 about the first Minecon which featured multiple guests.
- Martyn has been on the show three times
- Some Mojang Employees, such as Tobias Mollstam, Daniel Kaplan and Notch Himself have appeared as guests on the show.
- BlameTheController and SlyFoxHound are the only non-Yogscast Youtubers who has been on both The Co-Optional Podcast and The Shaft.
- March 2014 was 'Yogscast Month' on The Shaft to celebrate the Dead Workers Party joining the Yogscast.
- In March 2014, Eric Fullerton and Brent Copeland became members of the Yogscast.
- One of the original show hosts, Wes Wilson left on episode 161 because he wanted to go on and do other things. His leaving podcast contained the first public hint that Brent and Eric were joining the Yogscast as Wes stated that "There are some big things going to be announced for these guys in March".
- In July 2014, Eric, another of the original show host left the podcast due to him "wanting to focus on his music.