It's a low-tech setting for a high-stakes conversation.

Two casually-dressed men with microphones sit in a basement in white mesh chairs, a laptop computer on a low table between them. The room is filled with plants. Soft, natural light filters in from the ground-level windows.

The men are Saskatoon police officers Dylan Kemp and Jason Garland. On May 15, they began broadcasting The Quiet Fight, a podcast they bill in promos as "the show that talks honestly about what the job does to your mind, y…