The sound you recorded from your microphone is in stereo (by default, however you can make it single-channel monophonic if you want), so the plot is plotting both channels. The sound is stored in a (Nx2) matrix, with the left channel the first column and the right channel the second column. You can plot only one channel, or plot each in a separate figure (consider using subplot).
The sound you got from your online source is likely monophonic, and the plot displays only the one channel.
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